[Sca-cooks] polenta

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
wrote:


> Because of its natural sweetness, maize appears
> to have become the polenta
> grain of choice sometime during the 16th
> Century.
> 
> Bear

I just looked up polenta in the Oxford Companion
to Food and it says that maize became the grain
of choice during the mid-17th Century, which I am
inclined to believe, unless you have a period
reference to maize and polenta that they don't
know about?

Huette



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