[Sca-cooks] Date for battered deep-fried stuff

[Stefan li Rous]

Does deep frying vs, pan frying change the ultimate dish in flavor or texture? Or is it just the matter of ease of preperation as the cost of cooking oil came down in price and availability?

Stefan

> On Jul 22, 2018, at 6:26 PM, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:
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> From a purely technical point of view the only difference between pan frying and deep frying is the ability to submerge the food.  Deep frying as performed modernly begins in the 19th Century and the term is early 20th Century.  For period cookery, we may need to consider what was being prepared to gauge the depth of the oil in the pan.
> 
> Bear

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