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

[Dan Schneider]

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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