SC - Dyschefull of Snowe vs Apple Snow - a redaction question
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Fri Oct 27 10:52:54 PDT 2000
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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