SC - Need Help with Swet Potato Recipes

[Huette von Ahrens]

- --- BareToad at aol.com wrote:
> Greetings all!
> 
> The topic of thie month's Wintermist Culinary Guild
> Meeting is "Tourney 
> dishes", and one member wants to do something with
> sweet potatoes.  She has 
> an Elizabethan persona and has just recently
> discovered that Elizabethans 
> loved their sweet potatoes:-)  Has anyone on the
> list made period sweet 
> potato pie, and if so, what book did you use for the
> recipe?  I have Elinor 
> Fettiplace, and the instructions for turning the
> pudding into a pie are a 
> little confusing.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> Mairin
> Wintermist, Caid
> 
Hi, Mairin!

Fettiplace is a really questionably period book. While
it was started at the tail end of Elizabeth's reign,
it is really more Stuartian/Cavalier era.  Spurling
does not date any of the recipes, so one doesn't know
which were close to period and which were completely
out of period.

The sweet potatoes mentioned in Elizabethan sources,
IIRC are actually yams, which were from Africa and not
of New World origin.  

I have used a couple of period "Sweet Potato" recipes
from "Dining with William Shakespeare", by Madge
Lorwin for varying banquets for either Angels or
Coronation banquets.  I will try to remember to bring
the book with me to work and send you the recipes that
I have used.

Huette
Angels, Caid

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