[Sca-cooks] Minor rant - allergies and following directions
Susan Fox
selene at earthlink.net
Tue May 8 20:56:39 PDT 2012
That is a good question, Stefan. Actually, thickening with bread was
stated as an option in one of the main courses. I chose not to do so
Just In Case. Good call. Seeing as people asked for refills, they
don't seem to have missed the texture modification.
Selene C.
On 5/8/12 8:38 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Selene said:
> <<< I recently ran a feast for about 60 where two celiacs showed up
> without
> notice. This could have been a problem, but I had been under the
> influence of my incipient mother-in-law, also celiac, and had carefully
> NOT thickened anything with bread crumbs or the like.>>>
>
> Were you intentionally not cooking with breadcrumbs? Or did your
> particular menu not use them?
>
> Bread crumbs were a very common method of thickening things in period
> cooking. I would hate to see us changing the medieval dishes we serve
> just because one or two people might have problems with one ingredient.
>
> Even more so if something is avoided because there might be a
> hypothetical person who might show up and have a problem with an
> ingredient.
>
> And even more so, changing a medieval dish into a modern one because
> of such concerns.
>
> Your second paragraph tells me you might not have meant this as I read
> it, and that your menu just happened not to need bread crumbs.
> <<< It being from early Persian sources, if anyone had showed up with a
> killer allergy to ALMONDS, there would have been a real problem.
> Happily, that did not happen, this time. >>>
>
> However, at risk of making myself the target of all the celiacs out
> there, or others with special diet requests, I don't think we should
> be making things less period for everyone to met the needs of a few.
> especially when the situation being concerned about may be hypothetical.
>
> I've seen this come up before in other discussions where people wanted
> to rule out camping sites because they were difficult to navigate in
> wheelchairs.
>
> Stefan
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