[Sca-cooks] 6th Century Chinese Fermented Milk Products

[Solveig Throndardottir]

Lord Thorfinnr!

Greetings from Sólveig! Japanese Buddhist theorists in the Tendai tradition classified things in terms of progress of producing ghee. This thinking is sometimes associated with the Lotus Sutra. Ghee is of course clarified butter. It is actually fairly simple to make if you have butter and a double boiler. All of this is urging me to go retrieve my copy of Qimin Yaoshu (it’s read differently in Japanese as Japanese imported the readings rather a long time ago) from the book room in my apartment. And, yes they did have the makings of double boilers. One method for cooking rice used a steaming system which is almost a double boiler. 

I do not know why you are having difficulty with asian text in email. I’ve been using asian text in email for at least ten years now. I just took a look at a message from the pmjs mailing list from back in July of 2006 and it has kanji or hanzi and hangul as well in it. The subject line was North American Kanbun Studies.

Your Humble Servant
Sólveig Þróndardóttir
Amateur Scholar