[Sca-cooks] Drizzle of Honey

[Antonia Calvo]

Susan Fox wrote:

>>> Occasionally the heart can be wrong.  I finally won an argument with 
>>> a friend who insisted that Mayonnaise was OK for SCA use because all 
>>> the ingredients were known in pre-1600 Europe.  That may be so, but 
>>> there was no written evidence of that kind of emulsified sauce being 
>>> invented much before the 18th Century and that story about the chef 
>>> of the Duc de Richelieu having invented it in 1756.
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>> Although, interestingly enough, there are a couple of recipes from 
>> the Elizibethan corpus that come out not unlike Hollandaise...
>

I will have to follow up later-- I'm in the obnoxious position of not 
having my books at work and not having an internet connection at home.  
I think there was a salmon recipe in the Good Huswifes Jewell, and a 
recipe for capon or cauliflower in a butter sauce, source forgotten for 
the moment. 


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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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