[Sca-cooks] Ummm... weird question...

edoard at medievalcookery.com edoard at medievalcookery.com
Thu Mar 12 11:02:43 PDT 2009


I like how this recipe taken from your "Pilgrim's Picnic Basket" has
text implying you gave permission to reprint.
http://www.grouprecipes.com/48006/cotignac-of-quinces---quince-marmalade.html


> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" 
> 
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
> > <adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >> I just ran across this, and wondered if anyone might be able to  
> >> confirm my
> >> suspicions as to the actual authorship of the text on this page:
> >
> > Your suspicions are right on target!  I googled a unique phrase in the
> > directions, and found the original in the Florilegium.  It was posted
> > to "SC" in March of 1999 by some guy named Phil...
> > http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-BREADS/wafers-msg.html
> 
> I suspected as much. You probably don't run across too many women in  
> South Carolina who use parentheses in their speech as often as certain  
> people here, or worry about the difference between teaspoons and  
> dessertspoons.
> 
> Darn. It's not the recipe I mind being lifted. She stole my da**  
> jokes! And I _think_ she added something dumb about herbs. Or maybe I  
> said something dumb about adding herbs, and am in denial. <checks  
> Florithingie> Nope, that wasn't me.
> 
> Ah, well, if I were too concerned about intellectual property I  
> wouldn't post here, and there's more where that came from...
> 
> Of course, I could simply include 37 pounds of mashed Braunschweiger  
> liverwurst to every recipe I post here from now on. You guys would  
> just know to ignore that, right? I mean, unless it was for a really  
> big canape?
> 
> Adamantius





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