neotoma: Neotoma albigula, the white-throated woodrat! [default icon] (recipes)
neotoma ([personal profile] neotoma) wrote2006-03-18 11:43 am
Entry tags:

Plums and Plums?

What is the possible difference between "purple plums" and "plums"? I have a recipe that calls for both, and for the life of me I can't imagine what the difference is.

[identity profile] neotoma.livejournal.com 2006-03-18 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
You want a *really* frustrating cookbook, look up Apicus and Dining in Imperial Rome.

I mean, who cooks a *crane* in the first place?

[identity profile] clara-swift.livejournal.com 2006-03-18 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmmm, roast crane ;oP

[identity profile] murasaki99.livejournal.com 2006-03-18 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
A crane? Um... I would think that might taste *very* fishy. I'll bet it was cooked purely as an asthetic table ornament. Ugh. That's like the pies with live birds in the shell the would fly out when the Lord or Lady cut the shell - the divertissement, wasn't it?