[Sca-cooks] candy and hostages
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Wed Aug 2 22:31:57 PDT 2006
Cailte said:
<<< On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:07:31 -0400 "grizly"
<grizly at mindspring.com> wrote:
> We can prove that using modern
> candy making techniques and a list of ingredients from 1200
Ireland, a
> modern cook can create caramel or whatever. But it still seems to be
> missing the bridge to what they would have knowledge, motivation,
> inspiration and skill to do.
IIRC, the original recipe was a drink of extreme
sustenance given the the young, especially those taken in
hostage (the good kind). >>>
Huh? When can being taken as a hostage be good? Other than perhaps
being dead? Or maybe I'm just missing something. Or maybe this is
something Irish?
Stefan
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