[Sca-cooks] OOP: Frozen sauces
Tom Vincent
Tom.Vincent at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 3 13:22:05 PDT 2006
Daniel Myers wrote:
>> Ok, first thing: Harlein ms. 279 is the manuscript that the recipe
>> was found in, not the designation of the recipe itself. If you want
>> to be more precise than "Strawberye" then I'd suggest something like
>> "recipe 123 of Harlein ms. 279".
>>
D: Of course. I was 'shorthanding' it, just as I didn't mention the
page in Fab Feasts.
> The title given to that particular section of the cookbook is indeed
> "Potage Dyvers", but there are a substantial number of recipes in
> that section that clearly are not soups (including a couple of blanc
> mangers, apple muse, and venison with frumenty). And yes, stating
> that people might have dipped things in their soup is a weak
> argument. They might have poured it on the floor and licked it off
> their feet as well.
>
>
D: No need for silliness (though I have met some ladies I'd love
to...well, never mind ;> ). They were called 'sops' for a reason, you know.
> Curye on Inglysh gives the equivalent recipe as follows:
> Freseys. Streberyen igrounden wyth milke of alemauns, flour of rys
> othur amydon, gret vlehs, poudre of kanele & sucre; the colur red, &
> streberien istreyed abouen.
> [I've substituted "th" for thorn in the above to make it easier on
> email clients]
>
> Nothing in Curye on Inglysh suggests this is a sauce. Pleyn Delit
> and Fabulous Feasts are both secondary sources, and unless they point
> out a different primary source are pretty much irrelevant on this.
>
> I'm not denying that it might be very very nice as a sauce. That's
> not the point at all. Marinara sauce is very nice on eggplant, but
> it's not medieval. We have no evidence at all that it was used as a
> sauce, we have a lot that implies it was eaten as a sort of pudding,
> regardless of how "Take a Thousand Eggs" chooses to label it.
>
> - Doc
>
>
D: And all that certainly makes sense. It might have been a soup, it
might have been a pudding-ish thing, it might have been a sauce. I
would say that was probably all of those things...and maybe even a
Medieval foot-fetishist's foreplay lotion. :)
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