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

[johnna holloway]

Given that Dawson first published in the mid 1580's, it's
also unlikely that this is a white potato.
The 1596 is the edition commonly cited but it's not
the earliest edition of the Good HW Jewell.

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

Terry Decker wrote:>
> 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).
>
> >Nothing in the recipe itself to say whether it is a white or a sweet
> potaton.
> >
> >Elizabeth of Dendermonde/Betty Cook