[Sca-cooks] Re: Historic Cheesecake in the papers this past week

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

was writ:
>I've cooked at historic Plimoth Plantation for 12 years, and I love doing
>the authentic seventeenth-century harvest dinner.  I didn't create the menu.
>It was researched -- and this cheesecake recipe was found -- by the museum's
>food historians.  They know what would've been available to the Pilgrims and
>native Wampanoags in 1627.  For example, there wasn't much fruit, and they
>had onions, but no Bermudas.  The little details are fun.  What's less fun
>is deciphering recipes written in old English!

Of course, Old English is Anglo-Saxon. In 1627, folks were speaking 
and writing Modern English, although without the same roolz uv 
spelling wee hav toodae.

Anahita