SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #346

[John and Barbara Enloe]

Milord,

     The documentation that I have seen does not refer to sweet potatoes,
but to regular potatoes.  The illustrations are clearly not sweet potatoes
or yams.

                         Jon

At 06:08 PM 10/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>John and Barbara Enloe wrote:
>> 
>> There are numerous documentations for potatoes in late period (last 25 or
>> so years).
>> 
>>                  jon
>
>What there is, is _some_ documentation, not especially numerous,
>suggesting that sweet potatoes were occasionally eaten in late period,
>particularly in Spain, Portugal, and England, more or less as a novelty.
>
>That doesn't mean that white Virginia potatoes were typical of the
>cuisines of Medieval Europe, even if the documentation that exists for
>sweet potatoes did, in fact, refer to white ones, which are botanically
>very different.
>
>It can get confusing, because sweet potatoes are almost invariably
>referred to as simply "potatoes", until years later , when it became
>necessary to use the qualifiers of "sweet" and "Virginia" or "white". It
>is primarily the various illustrated herbals that make it quite clear
>that what they call potatoes are actually sweet potatoes.
>
>Adamantius
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