SC - Emeril on medieval cooking

[Nanna Rognvaldardottir]

In fact, aren't "Maids of Honor" tarts
>>at least 17th or 18th Century, possibly Victorian?
>
>Actually, probably not. As the story goes, the original was whipped up by
>Henry the eigth's cooks to serve Ann Boleyn and Friends, when she was a
>"Maid of Honor" (lady-in-waiting) in the court of his current wife.

Possible. But the earliest written reference to them dates from the latter
part of the 18th century.

Nanna