[Sca-cooks] Potatos in Ireland

[johnna holloway]

There are no cookbooks published in Ireland in the
16th century. There is one English cookbook that is reprinted
in Dublin that would be a very late 17th century English text, although
date of publication in Dublin is 18th century, I believe.

So there are no Irish recipes for the potato. What we have for
the topic of the Irish eating potatoes is that in the 17th century
they are being recorded in legal documents as part of a lease
in Northern Ireland in 1606.

(The question should be ARE there any potato recipes?
That answer is maybe. If you read German, you can examine
the German texts yourself and see what you think about the
famous assertion that potatoes appear in German cookbooks
for the first time in 1581,  in Ein Neu Kochbuch by Marx Rumpolt

You should plan on reading the following:
Feast and famine by Clarkson and Crawford. OUP 2002.
The History and Social Influence of the Potato by Salaman. CUP
Land of Milk and Honey by Brid Mahon.
Ireland's Tradtional Foods by Cowan and Sexton.

I am sure that your local public library can interlibrary loan
them for you. At least in 2 are in print in this country and you
order the other two from the UK, should you decide that you
want more material.

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway


What are you reading by the way that does not provide you
with a bibliography for follow-up?
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Cera Chonaill wrote:

> What are some of the earliest reference to potatos in receipes in Ireland?
>
> >From what I've read, the potato what brought to Europe in the early 16th
> century and a century later it had become a solid stable in the Irish diet.
> With the climate in Ireland they were easy to grow and attendition was given
> to the few varieties that had higher yields. While I know information about
> the existance of potatos in Ireland in late 16th century I have no actual
> receipes using potatos that far back.
>
> Any help, thanks, Cera
>