SC - cranberries

[Philip & Susan Troy]

At 13:09 +1000 2001-04-22, Craig Jones & Melissa Hicks wrote:

> A friend of mine found the following recipe from: Thomas Dawson (1596) The
> Good Huswifes Jewell, Falconwood Press edition p7.
> 
> To boile pigges feete and petitoes
> Take and boyle them in a pint of vergice & bastard, take foure dates minced
> with a fewe small raysons, then take a little time and chop it small and
> season it with a little synamon and ginger and a quantity of vergice.
> 
> His question:  what are petitoes?  Are they potatoes?  White potatoes?
> Sweet potatoes?


Check the OED under "pettitoes", which gets nearly a column's worth 
of print.

"The feet of a pig, esp. as an article of food; pig's trotters; in 
earlier use the word seems to have included the heart, liver, lungs, 
etc., not only of the pig, but of calves, sheep, and other animals."


Thorvald