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Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir wrote:
> 
> Adamantius wrote:
> >"IRISH CHRISTMAS CAKE
> > <from Malachi McCormick's "Irish Country Cooking", ©1988 Malachi
> >McCormick, pub. Clarkson N. Potter, NY>
> 
> Strange ... when I read this text a few minutes ago, I thought: Hey, wasn´t
> I reading this earlier today. Sure enough, in Darina Allen´s Traditional
> Irish Cooking, there is a recipe for Christmas Cake - not the same recipe,
> many similiarities though, but not the same. But here are a few examples
> from the introducion:
> 
> McCormick
> > This is the Great Irish Cake, the traditional pièce de résistance,
> Allen:
> "... for this traditional pièce de résistance ..."
> 
> McCormick:
> > At home, the night for Christmas cake making was mysteriously chosen,
> >toward the end of October or the beginning of November.
> Allen:
> "... a day towards the end of October or early November was chosen."
> 
> McCormick:
> >My mother never
> >lacked for little helpers who shopped for the dried fruit and candied
> >peel, and who chopped and sliced and stirred, so willingly...
> Allen:
> "Making the cake was a family affair and in our family there was no shortage
> of eager helpers. As children we stoned the muscatel raisins, washed and
> halved the jewel-like cherries, diced the chunks of candied peel and citron
> and even helped with the laborious creaming of butter and soft Barbados
> sugar."'
> 
> McCormick:
> >Soon the house would be filled with
> >that most seductive of perfumes, the rich smell of home baking.
> Allen:
> "... soon the seductive smells of home baking filled the house."
> 
> McCormick:
> > By the time Christmas came around, both the cake and our anticipation
> >of it had matured perfectly.
> Allen:
> "By the time Christmas came round everyone was in a fever of anticipation."
> 
> Coincidence?
> 
> Nanna

Hmmm. I don't want to say it isn't, and that somebody plagiarized
somebody's work, but it seems quite possible that there's been some
writing on the five-fingered discount.

What's the original date on Allen's book? I see Amazon carries a 1998
reprint. McCormick originally wrote his (I'm assuming he did) in 1983 or
84. I'm wondering because McCormick's original work was probably
published in a run of 1000 copies or so; maybe someone decided the
material was too good to waste on a limited-run handmade book.

Alternately, the possibility exists McCormick figured not too many
people would read his book anyway, I don't know.

But yes, the similarity is pretty eerie in any case.
 
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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