[Sca-cooks] Recipe for period gingerbrede
Antonia Calvo
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Wed Sep 9 14:14:04 PDT 2009
Susan Lin wrote:
>That's why we have food processors!!!!! don't yell at me - I know - it's
>not a period tool but I just had to throw it in.
>
>
Oh, fair enough-- that's how I make crumbs, too. The food processor is
also great for toast crumbs, buttered crumbs, cookie crumbs, etc.
>But-it's a reasonable questions - they could have taken day old (not yet
>dry) bread and broken it or rubbed it into "crumbs".
>
Yes, they could have, but I think the specific instruction to *grate* is
highly suggestive of *dry* bread.
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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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