[Sca-cooks] Potatos in Ireland

[Terry Decker]

Thomas Gloning has provided linguistic information that suggests Rumpolt's
Erdapfel is a squash rather than a potato.  There is a late 16th Century
letter between two German rulers containing a recipe for preparing potatoes.
And I don't think any of us have been able to prove or disprove Aresty's
assertion that there is a potato recipe in Weckerin.

In any event, potato recipes first appear in the last decade of the 16th
Century and very rarely.

Bear


>(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
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>Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway