[Sca-cooks] polenta

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
> Castore Durante in his Italian herbal 1585
> mentions three culinary uses
> among other things: Pane, polenta, torta
> 
>    "Fa la farina bianca, della quale si fa bel
> pane, la sostanza del
>     quale è più grossa, & pi` viscosa del
> nostro. ... Fanno di questa
>     farina i contadini le polente, & le torte
> aggiuntoui butiro,
>     & formaggio, & è cibo non insuaue: ma
> genera grosso nudrimento".
>     C. Durante p. 217f.)
> 
> There are references to the use of maize in
> Europe as early as 1539, but
> Durante's is the first to specifically mention
> polenta.  Leonard Fuchs
> states in his Herbal (1545) that maize was
> common, grown in many gardens and
> used to make bread.
> 
> Bear

Okay!  Thank you!  I guess that Alan Davidson
needs to be told that his entry is incorrect. 
Sigh.

Huette

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