[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks] cold-cereal-and-juice breakfast

[Susan Fox]

Does the picture on every box count as "printed instructions"?

Part of your nutritious breakfast,
Selene C.

><johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
>
>>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] cold-cereal-and-juice
>>breakfast
>>
>>No, I am sorry, but actually there are examples in
>>cookbooks
>>of recipes or instructions that dictate or suggest
>>how cold cereal and milk
>>should be served. Check out any number of juvenile
>>cookbooks.
>>Check out more modern cookbooks that talk about
>>health and
>>balanced diets. Also check out the "breakfast"
>>cookbooks.
>>There are printed instructios/recipes for cold
>>cereal mixes, what to
>>add to cold cereal (decorate with bananas, etc.),
>>benefits of low
>>fat milk versus whole milk etc. These all can be
>>found in modern cookbooks.
>>Cold cereal and milk can be found in cookbooks,
>>
>>Johnnae
>>still very behind in e-mails
>>
>
>Of my 50+ cookbooks, I found _none_ that said "Put
>cereal in a bowl, pour milk onto it, eat it with a
>spoon". None.
>For the level of cook who used a cookbook  before the
>printing press came in, instructions for plain roast
>meat would be exactly equivalent to the above.
>However, I will agree that your peripheral
>instructions certainly do exist, in perhaps as many as
>1/10th of one percent of all cookbooks now in
>existence.
>So suppose in period cookbooks even ten times that
>percentage included 'how to cook a roast'. What would
>the chances be that any of that one per cent would
>survive into the present day?
>
>Yours in service to both the Societies of which I am a member-
>(Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk, R.S.F.
>Alisond de Brebeuf, C.O.L. S.C.A.- AKA Una the wisewoman, or That Pict
>