[Sca-cooks] OOP gingerbread question

[Daniel Myers]

Greetings,

Can anyone point me to a good source for 17th century English recipes?  
I'm especially interested in ones for gingerbread.  Was it a leavened 
cake or a cookie sort of thing by then, or was it still the formed, 
spiced honey-bread paste as it was in the 15th century?  The local 
meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (a.k.a. Quakers) wants to 
have a dinner and/or potluck with dishes from the 1600s, and I've been 
semi-drafted as the one to find the recipes.

- Doc


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  Edouard Halidai  (Daniel Myers)
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