SC - seed cake from Tusser

[Stefan li Rous]

Phlip said:
> > I was the one who mentioned it. I don't have the reference handy, but I
> got
> > it from someone on this List. It was late Period, Italian (gee, wonder
> why
> > ;-) and consisted of a flat bread covered with cheese and a few other
> > things- can't remember just what, since I don't particularly like pizza.

And then Krysta replied to her: 
> I missed the original thread on this.  But for those of us living in the
> US, I know that a different picture comes to mind when we think of pizza
> than when some one from say Greece thinks of Pizza.

> I can imagine that the things that we consider common in the western
> hemisphere are rare in the Eastern hemisphere and vise versa.  Trying to
> imagine what this recipe might have been like in the Middle ages brings
> quite odd pictures to the mind.

We had a discussion on period pizza or at least pizza-like things a while
back. You might want to take a look at this file in the FOOD-BREAD
section of my files:
pizza-msg         (15K) 12/ 3/98    Period pizza and similar items.
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