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

[Mairi Ceilidh]

> 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
>
>
Oh please, which records?  I have been (about half-heartedly) looking for
sources on maize, other than the obvious paintings.

Thank You!

Mairi Ceilidh