SC - Food A Culinary History
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler at chesapeake.net
Wed Apr 26 12:29:18 PDT 2000
- --- pat fee <lcatherinemc at hotmail.com> wrote:
> My mother-in-law( a Scot, born there) calles it
> Dundee cake. It is a
> cake,( original date 1567) according to the recipe
> that uses dried berries
> and "sour" oranges, from "heathen lands" The soaked
> fruit is the berries
> soaked in the juice of the oranges with honey added.
> I believe the peel of
> the orange was added in a later dated
> version.(1800's) There are eggs,
> flour, honey, buttermilk, soda(bakeing)and rose
> water in this cake. Also a
> version calles for oats to be soaked in the
> buttermilk over night, then
> added to the batter.
>
> Lady Katherine McGuire
The baking soda is also a recent addition. Sodium
bicarbonate is not used in 1567. It came into use in
the 19th century. I take it that you don't have a
copy of the original recipe? If not, then your copy
has been corrupted sometime during the 19th century.
This is too bad. But what can you do now? I am sure
that your ancestors thought that modernizing the
recipe was appropriate.
I would still like your recipe, even if it is modern.
Huette
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