[Sca-cooks] Redaction

[Johnna Holloway]

I suppose we could just say after a suitable long and scholarly  
introduction that discusses
the texts, all the recipes, the ingredients, etc...

  "here's my version"!

We use "modernized" too. That was another phrase attached to such  
recipes.

Johnnae

On Jan 25, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Claire Clarke wrote:
> Coming into this discussion rather late, I have to say I like
> 'reconstructing'. That's what it feels like I'm doing when I'm  
> experimenting
> with period recipes in the kitchen - not so much taking a known  
> recipe and
> adapting it for different circumstances (though of course there are  
> elements
> of that) but trying to end up with something that's more or less  
> what the
> original recipe is trying to describe. 'Conjectural reconstruction'  
> seems
> like an excellent (if rather cumbersome' description.
>
> Angharad