[Sca-cooks] Help please

[Marjan English]

Greetings everyone,

I recently made some rhubarb mead which turned out rather well.  Does anyone know if this plant was used in the past for this purpose?

Many thanks

Myrrim

> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:08:52 -0700
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> From: prescotj at telusplanet.net
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Redaction
> 
> 
> If I were entering a dish in an A&S competition, I would probably write
> something like:
> 
> "This dish is my best attempt to re-create what I think the original dish
> might have looked and tasted like.  The next section is a summary of the
> gaps that I have had to fill in, the differences in ingredients or
> ingredient substitutions that I have had to make (and why), the modern
> appliances and tools that I have used, and any other points where there
> might be differences between this dish and the original."
> 
> "re-creation", "interpretation", "best attempt", and "redaction" all
> carry some level of implication that there will be differences.
> 
> We have the opportunity within the SCA to take "redaction" (or some other
> word) and make it mean what we like.  When I first ran into the word
> "redaction" in the SCA context, I interpreted it from context (without
> looking it up) as meaning "best attempt at re-creating an original
> recipe".  So even if that is not the precise dictionary definition, it
> might be a meaning we could adopt if we think it is useful.
> 
> It leaves room for us to discuss whether any particular redaction is more
> or less faithful to the original.
> 
> 
> Thorvald
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