IH> Oh NO, stuff written after 1610. (Date of Monterverdi's Vespers) ;-)
 RH>> I like stuff written either before that date, or after 1940,
 RH>> generally....
 IH> And in Cooking, I saw from Michael's comment that you 
 IH> replied to me, but unfortunately your reply never 
 IH> reached me :-(((
He moved his reply over there.  FIDO has been chewing the newspaper again, 
methinks.
 IH> I wonder if you could possibly resend it for me, if you 
 IH> do as I do, which is to keep a copy of all 
 IH> correspondence to and from me directly.
I would if I could, but right now I don't even have a functional offline 
reader.  
 IH> What can I send you? As we're still talking about love, 
 IH> how about an iced summer tomato soup?
My father will like this one; he's the household tomato junkie.  We've also 
planted regular, cherry, and plum tomatoes.  I fully expect to be swimming in 
love apples this summer!
Hmmm, anything handy to send back?  Michael just got bombarded with 
chow-chow-recipes, so I'll lay off those.[had him complaining about lima 
beans....]
Hmmm, how about this turn of the century Pennsylvania German recipe?
Spiced Cantaloupe
6 pounds of cantaloupe [musk mellon] cut as nearly one size as possible, 4 
quarts of water, 1 ounce of alum; bring to the boiling point, drop in your 
fruit, cook 15 minutes, lift and drain a short while.  Then take 1 quart 
vinegar, 3 pounds white sugar, 3 teaspoonfuls of yellow mustard seed, 1 
teaspoonful of black mustardseed, 1 teaspoonful whole mace, 8 inch stick 
cinnamon, 9 whole cloves, about a dozen whole allspice.  Place the fruit in 
it and slowly cook until clear requires about 2 hours.
[all typos mine, all pre-1900 measurements, the author's]
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