[Sca-cooks] cookbook ratings

[Johnna Holloway]

The Pepperidge Farm Cookbook has the great recipe
in it for pumpkin pie which it says appears in Platina
which is odd because pumpkins are very new world
and Platina was first printed in 1475 prior to the various
voyages to the Americas.
It all turns in that instance on the new world pumpkin being
given the name of an older world gourd.... same word-- different foodstuff.

Johnnae

Sue Clemenger wrote:

> A lot (probably virtually all) of the recipes in the "Antique 
> Cookbooks" section of my old Pepperidge Farm cookbook are like that.  
> The "modern" recipes (done in the late 50s or early 60s, I think) only 
> rarely sound appetizing, which is interesting, considering that the 
> modern sections of the cookbook have some good, if dated recipes.
> --maire
>