[Sca-cooks] Potato Pie (was: deep frying)

[Terry Decker]

The OED notes it as a sweet potato.

Reference is made in the writings of Francis Drake and John Hawkins to
potatoes which, by the geographical association, can only be sweet potatoes.
Since the first indication of white potatoes in Europe is from 1573 and the
earliest known white potato in England (and Northern Europe for that matter)
is 1586 and the earliest known common cultivation in the British Isles is
1606, it is unlikely this recipe is calling for white potatoes.

Bear


>This is from _The Good Huswifes Jewell_ by Thomas Dawson, 1596; I
>have the Falconwood Press edition (1988).
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>Nothing in the recipe itself to say whether it is a white or a sweet
potaton.
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>Elizabeth of Dendermonde/Betty Cook