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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
That link worked.
I had googled.
Ok now wise one define true chef.
Someone that went to culinary school, a cook at your favorite chain, the head chef at the local mom and pop or every wife and/or mother or guy that has to figure out approximately 300 dinners a year.
Well which one?
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How many of us wonder what would happen to our favourite Brownie recipe if we (say) doubled the butter ?
And then try it ?
If we have some idea of what the result should be an antique recipe may work out but for the more exotic ones the result will only be an adaption.
See
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Mediev..._an_Almond.pdf
How to Milk an Almond Stuff an Egg And Armor a Turnip
A Thousand Years of Recipes
by David Friedman and Elizabeth Cook
Also available in print (POD)
More
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Medieval.html