SC - Good Housewifes Jewell

[ND Wederstrandt]

Here is the recipe for the Tart that includes potatoes.

To make a tarte that is a courage to a man or woman.

Take two Quinces, and two or three Burre rootes, and a potaton, and pare
your Potaton, and scrape your rootes and put them into a quart of wine, and
let them boyle till they bee tender, & put in an ounce of Dates, and when
they be boyled tender, Drawe them through a strainer, wine and all, and
then put in the yolkes of eight Egges, and the braynes of three or foure
cocke, Sparrowes, and straine them into the other, and a little Rose water,
and seeth them all with suger, Cinamon and Gynger, and Cloves and mace, and
put in a little sweet butter, and set it upon a chaffing dish of coles
between two platters, and so let it till it be somethingn bigge.

I have not made this for several reasons..... I could get the Zoology
students to get be Cock Sparrow brains but I'm not that big of a
authenticity fanatic and I personally like sparrows.   Also I just started
reading through the cook book
and was looking for something else when I found the recipe.  Hope you enjoy it.

Clare