SC - BOUNCE scCitron and Potato

[Michael F. Gunter]

> 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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