[Sca-cooks] OOP gingerbread question
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Tue Oct 7 17:58:50 PDT 2003
I'd probably start with Fettiplace or Martha Washington which have recipes
from the 16th and 17th Centuries. In a pinch, I'd use Hannah Glass or Lorna
Sass's "Dinner with Tom Jones," which would be early 18th Century recipes.
Bear
>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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