[Sca-cooks] Tree Saps: Was New World Food

[Johnna Holloway]

Or we could take a few moments and just look up
birch sap recipes and note that they did exist.
We don't have to suppose in this case that they were never written down.
Those recipes were written down and they were published and they appear
in printed books that appeared for real in the 16th and 17th centuries.
They also appear in various manuscripts.
So yes with a bit of time invested in some research, we can
find those actual printed words and instructions and use those to guide us.

Johnnae (playing librarian again)

snow flake wrote:
> Well there is the difference I suppose.  I don't think we have to have it in the written word or a painting to believe that someone, somewhere, given the tools, and skills of the time, wouldn't have tried it.
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> There are hundreds of thousands of things we do everyday that aren't written down in a book, or a picture painted of.  It doesn't mean it didn't happen, only means that no one bothered to record it.
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> I think that this documentation is good for base, it gives us what tools, processes, techniques, and goods were generally available, but I don't think I need limit myself to only those dishes we have recipes for, or only those techniques dipicted in paintins and tapestries.snipped
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> Eira
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