SC - OT - OOP - All members well and accounted for? (Tornadoes)

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> > Lady Brighid ni Chiarain posted a recipe:
> > > 
> > > Source: "Libro del Arte de Cozina" (Spanish, 1599); translation mine
> > > 
> > > CIDRA Y PATATA -- Citron and Potato
> > 
> > How sure are you that the potato that is meant is the white potato?
> 
> I am not certain at all, but I felt that period recipes for any kind of
> potato 
> were rare enough to be of interest.  
> 
> Found another recipe, this one 
> for "Carne de Limon, y Batatas" -- flesh of lemon and sweet potatos.  In 
> modern Spanish at least, "patata" is the term for the white potato.  
> "Batata" or "patata dulce" is the sweet potato.  So unless you want to 
> argue scribal error (which is *always* possible), it looks to me as 
> though we have two potato recipes, one of each kind. 
> 
> Brighid
> 
Reay Tannehill in Food In History comments that in 1573 the Hospital de la
Sangre in Seville ordered potatoes at
the same time they did other stocks.  Also, while reading Braudel,
Civilization and Capitalism, Vol. I, I came across a tidbit which says that
potatoes were used to feed the poor in Spain in 1643.

Since the white potato was discovered by the Spanish about 1530, a Spanish
recipe for them 69 years later isn't surprising, although the sweet potato
appears to have been the preferred vegetable.

Bear
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