SC - book by Carole Lambert

[ana l. valdes]

You really got me, master. Leonardo speaks all the time of polenta, his
time most common food for poor people and I assumed it was todays
polenta. But you are right, maybe the polenta they used at that time was
not made with maize, which come later to Europe.
Ana

Philip & Susan Troy skrev:
> 
> "ana l. valdes" wrote:
> >
> > I had the great polenta recipe.
> > Here it comes:
> >
> > Boil one liter water on a pan
> > Add the polenta (200 grams to a liter water) grain and take away of the
> > stove
> 
> This sounds lovely! I have a question, though. If this is indeed
> attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would put it at the late 15th,
> early 16th centuries. Do we have any reason to believe that the polenta
> grain called for (if the word polenta is used) is in fact maize? Hasn't
> polenta referred in the past to both chestnut meal and barley meal
> cereal? Da Vinci's contemporary, Platina, seems to refer to polenta as a
> barley meal product.
> 
> I'm sure it's lovely made with those, too, though!
> 
> Adamantius
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> Phil & Susan Troy
> 
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