[Sca-cooks] Another food myth

[Sue Clemenger]

Some knight in China sat on a pig??? <g>
I haven't heard the roast pork story....tell, please?
--Maire

Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
>
> I was searching the web for recipes for waffres (yes, Stephan, I look in the
> appropriate Flory-file), when I came across this preposterous statement:
>
> The first waffles supposedly happened in 13th century England when a
> crusader, with his coat of armor on, accidentally sat in some freshly
> baked oat cakes. He ate them anyway. The knight in shiny armor and his
> wife were so excited about how the butter stayed in the crevices that
> every time they made oat cakes, he had to sit on them to make the
> imprints. They were called "waffres", meaning flat honeycomb cakes.
>
> It rather reminds me of Charles Lamb's story of how roast pork was
> invented in China.