[Sca-cooks] New World Foods in the Old World

[Terry Decker]

I would say it probably is maize (Indische Korn or Indian corn), as that was
introduced to Europeans during Columbus's first voyage.  Maize appears in
Fuch's Herbal of 1543 and while I haven't read the text of that edition,
IIRC, a later edition comments on maize being grown in gardens in Germany.
>From other records, we know that it was being used in breads and other baked
goods in the latter half of the 16th Century.

Bear


>I came across the mention of "indian grain" in the Medici Archives Food and
>Wine section at:
>http://www.medici.org/hum/topics/topicreports/FoodandWine_1Page40.html
>
>Is "indian grain" possibly maize?  The letter is dated April 30, 1548.
>
>Regina
>
>
>>
>> A lot would depend on how the plants came into use.  Maize, peppers and
>> squash may have come into general use through the Ottoman incursions
which
>> put it into the hands of the general populace rather than as
>> delicacies for
>> the noble's table.
>>
>>
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