Klarinet Archive - Posting 000395.txt from 1996/06

From: "Scott D. Morrow" <SDM@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Larry Liberson's cake recipe
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 11:15:03 -0400

>The problem I have is that my wife is lactose intolerant and that
>cake would cause two weeks of continuous throwing up.
>

>====================================
>Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
>(leeson@-----.edu)
>====================================

Dan,
You could do what I'd do: be self-sacrificing and protect your
wife by eating the whole cake yourself!

Incidently, if the composer wrote the recipe for sour cream and
powdered chocolate (based, of course, on his/her extensive understanding of
the sound qualities of these specific ingredients), we are obligated to
render this cake precisely in the manner proscribed by the composer. Of
course we can say, "But Mozart wouldn't have made the cake that way if he'd
had access to margerine!" But how do we know this? Without concrete
supporting historical evidence (and remember: ALL cooking is based on
EVIDENCE), we should make every effort to follow the written wishes of the
composer!

-Scott

Scott D. Morrow
Department of Biochemistry
School of Hygiene and Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
(410)-955-3631

SDM@-----.edu