[Sca-cooks] 'take wine or vinegar', was: Cinnamon ...

[emilio szabo]

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The instruction 'take wine or vinegar' comes up 
relatively frequently in North German recipes and 
suggests that a) wine and vinegar belonged together 
in upper-class cooking and b) what they considered 
wine was not what we consider wine.>>


The two conclusions do not follow from the instruction, in addition I think that 
b) is false.


The alternative wine/vinegar is current in humoral theory and dietetics. The 
choice of wine or vinegar depends on season in the first place.


I don't remember where I read it, probably somewhere in Scully's works.


E.