SC - RE: Quince Pastes (long answer)
RANDALL DIAMOND
ringofkings at mindspring.com
Sun Apr 30 22:10:27 PDT 2000
In a message dated 4/30/00 8:49:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
Mordonna22 at aol.com writes:
> Corn was a common name for cereal grain before the introduction of maize
from
>
> the New World. Maize is very late period at best. The very earliest it
> could have been introduced is 1492, and it would have taken time to become
> common. The earliest recipes we have for it are late sixteenth century
IIRC.
>
>
That would explain things, I guess. I was not aware that "corn" was a
generic term. Now I do, though. Thanks bunches.
Balthazar of Blackmoor
Words are Trains for moving past what really has no Name.
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