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Summary: 'Updating' involves everything from transcription itself to changing the spellings to match their modern equivalents - but also to convert ingredients
by tofof 11y ago
Summary:
'Updating' involves everything from transcription itself to changing the spellings to match their modern equivalents - but also to convert ingredients or their handling (room-temperature butter, for example), and finally the more substantial issues of converting cooking on something like a hearth to modern alternatives.
Some people gripe at any 'updating' but it's actually a subtle problem on where to stop.
- ghaff 11y agoThere are even more subtle issues of updating than were touched on in the post. A lot of meats (especially chicken and pork) are much different than their equivalents of even a few decades ago. As a result, recipes in even relatively recent cookbooks like Julia Child's classics will "work" but they're probably not ideal for today's leaner pork and more tender chicken.
- cbd1984 11y agoThat reminds me: The older admonitions to cook pork until it's bone-dry and sawdust-like date from an earlier era before modern pig ranching, when trichinosis was more common and cooking until desertification was the only way to ensure safety. These days, at least in America, trichinosis is practically unheard-of and pork can be juicy and tender with very little actual risk. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/26/cooking-pork-safely-the-science http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/may/26/cooking-...