[Sca-cooks] Re: Stupid Cook Tricks

[Elise Fleming]

A number of years ago, while I still had apprentices, one asked me what
"worts" were.  I told him they were various herbs and leafy things used in
cooking.  That night at the SCA feast we were served buttered worts...
rather crunchy ones... He had used dried herbs, rationalizing that if he
soaked them in water they'd "reconstitute".  They didn't.  He still went
ahead with the recipe unbeknownst to me.  Surprisingly, several people ate
the results.  "Crunchy grass", I think some called it.  He now knows that
soaking dried marjoram, etc., won't bring it back to leafy softness!

Alys Katharine

Elise Fleming
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