[Sca-cooks] Norse Pies (was period cookies)

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I can picture/taste foods in my head as well.  However, I still prefer to test out recipes before serving them to the world at large...if for no other reason than wanting to make sure I've got the right combination of ingredients...and tht I'm cooking them properly.  I do this most of the time with modern recipes...and I certainly do it with period ones that I'm redacting.

Kiri


> 

> 
> Now, this is something I have trouble understanding. Yes, I'll agree that
> there are certain dishes that need a certain amount of fine tuning-
> Brighid's example regarding the balance of the pastry vs the filling is a
> perfect example (and I could definitely wish that modern pizza shops would
> work on that as well). But, can't you taste a food, in your head? Doesn't
> really take much to look at a food, if you know its basic ingredients and
> primary spicings to say, "I won't like this" or "I doubt this spicing blends
> well with that ingredient" or "This looks like it will produce a muddy
> melange, where I'm looking for a cleaner flavor note." I think the only two
> types of dishes I have difficlty with are pastries, as I mentioned, and some
> egg dishes.
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
> 
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
>  Blacksmith's credo.
> 
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
> 
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> 
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