[Sca-cooks] Aioli was RE: Salt fish recipes?-- I.E. SALTED (preserved) fish
Nick Sasso
grizly at mindspring.com
Thu May 1 06:13:13 PDT 2008
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>Herring fresh and powdered with ail [ale? garlic sauce?]. Herring of
>Gernemus with verjuice or with mustard. Fresh herring cooked in water
>with hot pepper.
Could "aillie" and "ail" mean aioli? I've heard that mayonnaise isn't
period, I'm not sure if aioli is, but it could be a precursor.
Ranvaig> > > > > > >
I would tend towards what Master A said about potnetial for a garlic sauce .
. . but would think aioli as we know it would not be plausible. Aioli is a
daughter sauce from the mother: mayonnaise. The logic that got the word
used (is garlic in the sauce) sounds like a good lead, but the immulsified
sauce would seem to be a weaker one.
niccolo difrancesco
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