SC - Rose Hips

[Cindy Renfrow]

I poked around for a few minutes yesterday, and what I remember of the
responses on the list boil down to:

Lorna Sass' Chrismas Feasts book says that the 18th C was the age of the
pudding, tho she gives one pudding in the 17th C section, too...

I have a reference to an "blasphemous and ungodly plum pudding" of
Oliver Cromwell period (late 1640s) -- recipe seems fairly like modern
plum pudding, but the printed version has baking soda in it, so...

and I found a reference to a plum pudding in my 1st ed. Pleyn Delit
(Constance Heiatt) that has a footnote that it's not at all like the
Victorian plum pudding...

My Martha Washington (internally dated by editor Karen Hess to ca.
1550-1625) to a number of puddings, most of which sound quite light and
custardy, tho a number do include thickening with bread crumbs...

Someone said something about Italian (Siena) Panforte being the closest
periodish equivalent of fruitcake... I've always wanted to make one of
those, and have a couple of recipes...  They come in both chocolate and
non-choc versions.

Chimene
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| From: DianaFiona at aol.com
| To: DUNHAM Patricia R
| Subject: Re: FW: SC - Roman Cheese Cake
| Date: Tuesday, September 30, 1997 11:48PM
|
| In a message dated 97-09-30 12:49:12 EDT, you write:
|
| <<
|  here it is, and there was next to no response about
|  fruitcake/whatever... except for paranoia from kimib2.  Consensus of
|  post-paranoia was that it takes a while to answer, they're mostly out
of
|  period, people didn't have resources at hand, etc.
|
|  chimene
|   >>
|      Thanks bunches! Maybe closer to Christmas folks will dig out some
more
| info, but I was thinking about getting started soon after all the rum
pot
| discussion, and wanted to try a period recipe this year if possible.
Oh,
| well................
|
| Diana
| 
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