[Sca-cooks] Books for Cooks at British Library

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Pat <mordonna22 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Take good Garbage (giblets), chikens' heads,
> feet, livers, And gizzards, and wash them
> clean; caste them into a nice pot, And caste
> fresh broth of Beef, powder of Pepper, Canell
> (cinnamon), Cloves, Mace, Parsley and Sage
> minced small; then take bread, steep it in the
> same broth, Draw it through a strainer, cast
> thereto, And let boil enough; caste there-to
> powder ginger, vergeous (sour apple juice),
> salt, And a little Saffron, And serve it forth.
>  
> The error?  The modern spelling is verjuice,
> and it is sour juice, preferably sour GRAPE
> juice.
>  
> Mordonna

>From the OED:

1. The acid juice of green or unripe grapes,
crab-apples, or other sour fruit, expressed and
formed into a liquor; formerly much used in
cooking, as a condiment, or for medicinal
purposes. Also in comparisons as, as sour 
(bitter, tart, etc.) as verjuice. 
 
I have no problem with their using sour apple
juice.  Sour grape juice isn't always the 
sour juice of choice.

Huette

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they shall never cease to be amused.


		
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