SC - Steamed Pudding Recipes - 2nd installment

[Elaine Koogler]

Akim, this is interesting because, IIRC, Gonzales Fernandez de Oviedo y
Valdes is Spanish and the book quoted is "Historia general y natural de las
Indias, Islas y Tierra-Firme del Mar Oceano," a text on the West Indies,
originally published in 1526.

If the quote is correct, then Oviedo is commenting on the Pacific coast,
because coconut palms occurred only on the west coast of South and Central
America at that time.

Bear

> The
> Portuguese
> historian Oviedo Y Valdes (1478-1557) notes in La General y natural
> historia de las Indias, the following:  'This frute was cauled Cocus for
> this
> cause, that, when it is taken from the place where it cleaueth there are
> seen
> two holes, and aboue them two other naturall holes, which altogether, doo
> represent the gesture and fygure of the cattes called Mammone, that is,
> munkeys, when they crye: which cyre the Indians caule 'coca'.'
> 
> Akim Yaroslavich
>