SC - shortbread/-cakes & salad

[Decker, Terry D.]

The recipe under consideration isfrom John Partidge's The Widowes Treasure,
1585, reprinted in Sass's To The Queen's Taste.

Bear

> Am I right in recalling that the original for the fine cakes recipe is
> late 16th century, roughly 1560 to 1590 C.E.? A very brief 
> look through
> some cookbooks, the ones I can reach, anyway (it's a long 
> story) looking
> for recipes for small cakes, turns up, among other sources, Gervase
> Markham. 
> 
> Adamantius