SC - Glogg

[Morgan]

> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 21:23:45 -0700
> From: yumitori at marsweb.com (Ron Martino Jr)
> Subject: Just Japanese (Was Re: SC - lye, fish, pastry, japanese and horehound)
> 
> Haifuku!
> 
> > 6.  Yumitori-dono, what would my 16th C. Dutch lord have come across 
> > food-wise while travelling in your part of the world?  I'd like to 
> > plan a meal to follow a shogi challenge.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Cairistiona nic Bhraonnaguinn
> 
>         Well, being Dutch, he would have come to Japan well after the
> Portuguese and Spanish. That means arriving after the introduction of
> tempura, bread and sponge cake (would anyone know what form this would
> have taken?), as well as several New World foods such as potatoes and
> maize, by the Portuguese.

Don't know for sure, but steamed sponge cake is extremely common all
over China and Japan now. Don't know when it was introduced, though.

Adamantius
troy at asan.com
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