SC - To boile pigges feete and petitoes
Craig Jones & Melissa Hicks
meliora at asiaonline.net.au
Sat Apr 21 20:09:30 PDT 2001
Morning all,
I haven't been keeping up over Easter (Rowany Festival followed by a
friend's wedding yesterday) so I apologise if this has come up recently.
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?
I suggested that sweet potatoes would be a best-guess given this source was
written late 16th Century in England.
Does anyone have any other ideas or thoughts? Please ....
Regards
Mel.
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