[Sca-cooks] Food for a Demo

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 3, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Dragon wrote:
> Antonia Calvo wrote:
>> otsisto wrote:
>>
>>> I do find a drawback with Gyngerbrede in that it tends to  
>>> perpetuate the
>>> spicing to cover rancid myth.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Um... how so?
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>
> Yeah, I was wondering the same thing myself. It doesn't seem to  
> follow...
>
> Dragon

I thought it might either be a joke, or perhaps in keeping with the  
idea (rightly or wrongly) that gingerbread in this form is one of  
those "lost bread" dishes that could be argued (not necessarily  
successfully) to be a use of expensive spices to make unpalatable  
bread palatable. In other words, a use of spices constituting a frugal  
expedient, as has been posited in the rotten-meat-and-spices scenario.

Of course, most or all of the arguments against the rotten meat thing  
would also apply here.

Or maybe I just didn't get the point...

Adamantius