SC - 14th Century Food

[david friedman]

At 9:00 AM -0600 1/21/99, Decker, Terry D. wrote:

>Baron Tibor places hartshorn within period based on a conversation on
>another list.  However, no primary source is listed, which makes the
>reference questionable.  Reference Stefan's Florilegium for the citation:
>
>http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/bread-msg.html

I don't think so. Unless I misread it, none of the people in that thread
asserted that harshorn was used in period, merely that it was used
pre-baking powder.

My memory from past discussions is that hartshorn appears in period, but
not as leavening; I think it was used in jellies.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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