[Sca-cooks] FW: Cooking qustion

[Terri Morgan]

A friend is dipping her toe into the period cooking pool and asked me a question that I didn't feel I had a good answer for. So, of course I bring it here. - Hrothny

Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:22 AM
To: 'Terri Morgan'
Subject: Cooking qustion

This might be odd but here goes…

I found a recipe for something called apple muse, basically an apple sauce/pudding that looks kind of tasty and it’s red!  Yay red!  But the red seems to come from sandalwood which I do not have and is (as you know) hard to find.  If I swap out the sandalwood with a little food coloring, is that going to change the taste much?  From what I’ve been able to find so far no one has much of anything to say about the flavor the sandalwood gives, just the color.  The only flavor note I found was “unappealing” which isn’t terribly helpful.  I would assume it would cut the surgery sweet in the same way cinnamon does, but what it would cut it with is the question and whether it makes any difference the issue.  Not having eaten anything with sandalwood I’m asking you, who may have ☺

Period cooking is fun.  Chemistry AND detective work!  And shopping.

Thanks!

-Oda