SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #154
L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt
liontamr at postoffice.ptd.net
Thu Jun 12 18:07:18 PDT 1997
>>Actually, chocolate is the only one of the three that IS period in
>>Europe, if only at the tail end.
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>>toodles, margaret
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>Actually, chocolate for consumption is just post period in Europe; 1579, I
>believe it was sent to Italy as a novelty, but no mention of it being
>ingested. 1631 is the first recipe I have found. It was all the rage in the
>New World (just to show that those uncivilized barbarians had developed
>*something* good).
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>Derdriu
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'Scuse me...an off topic question, but I am laboring under the impression
that we consider "Period" to be 600 to 1600, for Purists, and to 1650, to
include Cavaliers. Anybody? Am I wayyyyy off?
Aoife
"Many things we need can wait. The child cannot."
---Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Poet 1889-1957
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