SC - A Dilemma on what to cook for Dinner-HELP!

[Philip & Susan Troy]

"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

troy at asan.com
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