SC - Re: Scottish Oatcakes

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At 12:55 AM +1100 10/28/00, Lee-Gwen wrote:
>Some time ago Paul Macgregor posted a recipe for a "Dyschefull of Snowe"
>along with a redaction titled "Apple Snow" from  "A Book of Historical
>Recipes" by Sara Paston-Williams.  It is claimed to be a Scottish
>Elizabethan recipe dated 1572 AD. I was planning to make the redaction as a
>special desert for tea tomorrow and so took the time to compare the two
>recipes.  It seems to me that they are different recipes bearing only a
>passing resemblance to each other - they have the same ingredients,
>basically.  I have posted both versions and would appreciate the comments of
>the Gathered Cooks on this.

Obviously the "redaction" isn't--it's an entirely different dish. The 
ratio of egg whites to cream is far too large, the apple is sliced 
and cooked, ...   .

Does your source say where the original is from? Does anyone know of 
an Elizabethan source that happens to be dated 1572?

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