28-11-2016, 09:29 PM
Hello VViews,
Another possibility - or an additional one - is that the composition of the container tells something about the difficulty level or preparation stages of the recipe.
As if a simple wooden container would mean "just dry the plant parts and ground to powder", and the onces with two levels "mix the powders of the main ingredients first and then add the last powder", and the onces on tripods would need one or more cooking or distillation phases of some kind ... (Perhaps I am just thinking this because the ones on tripods remind me vaguely of samovars). Or some completely different code of course, but I mean some visual reminder of the preparation process, in wich a simple container stands for a simple preparation and an elaborate one for an elaborate recipe.
I don't know if that kind of illustration procudure would be compatible with the general visual conventions and image language of the time of the VMS.
Another possibility - or an additional one - is that the composition of the container tells something about the difficulty level or preparation stages of the recipe.
As if a simple wooden container would mean "just dry the plant parts and ground to powder", and the onces with two levels "mix the powders of the main ingredients first and then add the last powder", and the onces on tripods would need one or more cooking or distillation phases of some kind ... (Perhaps I am just thinking this because the ones on tripods remind me vaguely of samovars). Or some completely different code of course, but I mean some visual reminder of the preparation process, in wich a simple container stands for a simple preparation and an elaborate one for an elaborate recipe.
I don't know if that kind of illustration procudure would be compatible with the general visual conventions and image language of the time of the VMS.