[Sca-cooks] Dem buns

[Elaine Koogler]

It might still be period, depending on what was omitted.  In a couple of
cases, I've omitted ingredients that were dangerous, possibly toxic and/or
totally unavailable...like ground pearls...or ambergris!  However, when I
judged a cooking competition this past weekend at Coronation, I was somewhat
bemused by an entrant who substituted white wine for the grape juice the
recipe called for (and yes, even the unredacted translation said "grape
juice.")  Her reasoning was that she didn't have any grape juice in the
house and didn't want to make a trip to the store!!!

I can understand possibly making a substitution of a less expensive
ingredient for something more expensive when cooking a feast...but for a
competition???!!!

Kiri

On 4/11/07, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <adamantius1 at verizon.net>
wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Michael Gunter wrote:
>
> > You know, I can actually accept leaving out an ingredient
> > and still calling it "period". Think about it. You want to make
> > the bird and bacon stuffed rolls but the bird is bad. You aren't
> > going to toss the rest so you just do it. After a bit your family
> > likes it better that way. Just like Cariadoc's "scribal error"
> > because he doesn't like saffron (ditto!) someone in period may
> > not like an ingredient and not use it. That does not make it
> > non-period.
> >
> > Just an opinion.
>
> I can see circumstances where this would be a reasonable argument.
> Not all, but some. As another poster commented, leaving the bird out
> of a bird pasty is a bit of a stretch, not unlike eating Hamburger
> Helper without the hamburger (didn't I see that in some bad movie?).
>
> But as I said, I think it's a judgement call on the part of the cook/
> researcher, how much rationalizing they can or want to do.
>
> Adamantius
>
>
>
> "S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la
> brioche!" / "If there's no bread, you have to say, let them eat cake!"
>      -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
> "Confessions", 1782
>
> "Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
>      -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
> Holt, 07/29/04
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