[Sca-cooks] 'take wine or vinegar', was: Cinnamon ...
Dan Schneider
schneiderdan at ymail.com
Sat Nov 27 08:16:00 PST 2010
I agree: I often switch between wine and vinegar in everyday cooking, to get a little variation in a dish without changing its basic character too much, or if I realise I'm out of one or the other at the last minute...
Dan
--- On Sat, 11/27/10, emilio szabo <emilio_szabo at yahoo.it> wrote:
> From: emilio szabo <emilio_szabo at yahoo.it>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] 'take wine or vinegar', was: Cinnamon ...
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Saturday, November 27, 2010, 1:41 PM
>
> <<
> 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.
>
>
>
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