The 'Chinese' Theory: For and Against

[Amphigorist]

No need to wager.  I concluded that those parts were systematically omitted because otherwise the matches of the 主 to daiin left them hanging out at both ends of the recipes.  

I think the concern is that removing the flavor/temperature and provenance text, the structure of the SBJ becomes a lot more generic. With them in place, the text would have an easily discernible structure that the SPS doesn't have. Without them, it looks a lot like any list of discrete entries, with a rare or unique starting word and then a body of more common words. 

Being able to remove distinctive  structural elements of the text is a degree of freedom allowed to the one trying to make a match, even of those cuts are plausibly justifiable.