[Sca-cooks] Re: Stupid Cook Tricks

[Volker Bach]

Am Montag, 2. Januar 2006 14:57 schrieb 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!

Interesting. It works quite well with freeze-dried parsley, though. 

Just doesn't taste all that great.

Giano


	

	
		
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