SC - Citron and Potato

[Decker, Terry D.]

The source I read said that the Spanish fed potatoes to the mental patients
as an experiment and because they weren't worried about any possible side
effects (just like cattle fodder).
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From: Decker, Terry D. <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 9:34 a.m.
Subject: RE: SC - Citron and Potato


> > > 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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