[Sca-cooks] Food for a Demo

[otsisto]

to clarify, Gyngerbrede was served at a demo and the spices brought up the
subject of spices and someone (a student) was heard saying that back then,
they used spices in EVERYTHING to hide rotting and rancid foods. I have come
to understand that this incident was not the first time it was heard when
gyngerbrede was served at a demo.

Perhaps if it is not a "to much info", a list of food myths to be available?

De

-----Original Message-----
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