[Sca-cooks] Garlic

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Re comment (by Stefan, i think) on the combination of garlic and 
sugar being icky...

First, in the medieval context, we have recipes that contain both ingredients.

Second, modern Thai and Indonesian recipes are often seasoned with 
garlic and sweetened with sugar, and are doubtless other in cuisines 
that mix sweet and garlic in recipes.

Third, check the ingredients on commercial spaghetti sauce and salad 
dressing bottles - many contain both garlic and a sweetener. I don't 
buy sweetened spaghetti sauce (Ragu... it's like tomato syrup on 
spaghetti, yuck) and avoid excessively sweet salad dressings. There 
is or may be both garlic and sweetener in commercial catsup, 
commercial chili sauce, and many barbecue sauces, commercial and 
homemade. I know my homemade barbecue sauce has both garlic and brown 
sugar, along with hot chili paste, soy sauce, sherry, and a dash of 
catsup.

Re comment on garlic almonds being icky...

Mmm-mmm-mmm, more for me :-) I much prefer savory to sweet. I assume 
that person who thinks garlic almonds are eew-y also thinks smoked 
almonds are eew-y... I like them, except they're usually too salty.

Urtatim / Anahita