SC - Re: Sugar Plate Sculptures
Christina Nevin
cnevin at caci.co.uk
Wed May 5 07:52:39 PDT 1999
> And it came to pass on 4 May 99,, that Decker, Terry D. wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Thank you for this information. This strengthens my feeling that the two
> recipes I found are each for a different type of potato.
>
> Brighid
>
>
> Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
> Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
> mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> harper at idt.net
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