[Sca-cooks] redaction variations between people and over time

[Stefan li Rous]

niccolo difrancesco commented:
<<< It really is fun to see the directions
people go and the 'provisions' people make to meet their expectations  
and
needs for a recipe.  I'll bet the same recipe read 8 months apart by the
same person would yield different resulting final dishes.  This is  
some big
fun of historical cookery. >>>

This is one of the reasons there are often multiple redactions for  
the same period recipe in the various files in the Florilegium. There  
are sometimes multiple redactions of the same recipe by the same  
person in the same file. While it might be possible to search through  
a file and remove any previous redactions by the same person,  
sometimes people will explain things better or bring up other details  
than they do in their later redaction. Sometimes they may even change  
the redaction because of what they've learned since the earlier one.

Sometimes this even happens with our experts, such as Master  
Cariadoc. :-)  It's not exactly cooking, unless you really overdo it,  
but early in the armor-leather-msg file he says to use molten wax  
when hardening leather. Near the end of the file, he says to use  
neither wax nor hot oil, just boiling water.

So if someone wishes to do a study on this, there's a source of data,  
although not exactly random or unbiased.

Stefan
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