[Sca-cooks] deep frying

[Daniel Myers]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Nancy Kiel wrote:

> Eleanor Fettiplace's Receipt Book lists "To butter potato roots" and
> has two
> receipts for candying potatoes.  Hilary Spurling says that by Lady F's
> time,
> sweet potatoes were a regular autumn import from Spain; the white
> potato did
> not reach European markets until the 1640s.  Looking through La
> Varenne from
> 1653, I don't see any potato receipts listed in the index, but without
> looking through all the dishes I can't categorically deny that he
> doesn't
> use potatoes.


Of course, you also can't categorically deny that he liked to put
weasels down his pants and was the secret love child of a Welsh
doorknob maker and Turkish rug merchant.

- Doc


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