[Sca-cooks] Coffyn pan?

[Adele de Maisieres]

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

>>>What eternal question about bread bowls? Around here in my local  
>>>group
>>>many people tend to think they're just a little bit silly...
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>>I've never seen them done here.  Come to think of it, I don't think  
>>I've
>>even seen them done mundanely around here.
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>Well, if you do a Google search for "in a bread bowl", you get almost  
>40,000 hits. Somebody's certainly eating them, or at least serving them.
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Oh, I realise they're popular in other places-- and I've read several 
feast menus that featured them.   They're just not so widespread as to 
be the basis of an "eternal question"  :-)

>I can see how people might like something like that under the right  
>circumstances. For myself, I'd be torn between thinking, if you eat  
>it, it's probably a bit too much bread, and if you don't, it's a waste.
>  
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>Some people also just aren't fans of moistened bread, even though it's  
>the basis for a lot of great dishes.
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>

I can't say that I find the idea very appealing, myself.  I don't mind a 
little carefully moistened bread, but not saturated or soggy.  And I 
like to eat my bread with my other food-- not after I've finished it. 

So far as Med/Red cooking goes, a few people do seem very keen to 
establish the plausibility of bread bowls, but I haven't seen any real 
evidence.  I agree that they're kind of silly.


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Adele de Maisieres

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