05-31-2007, 12:09 PM
That's true, and the point. The most British people in the 18th and 19th century had no durned idea what real Indian curry and seasoning was like, since they'd never been to India before (that was only a small part of the population). So they had to rely on second-hand accounts and the fact that they lacked a lot of the ingredients that were really used... so they often made stuff that they THOUGHT was right. We are spoiled now because of all the good Indian food that started to appear in the late 20th century.
-Christy Beall
