[Sca-cooks] Re: Historic Cheesecake in the papers this past week
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Mon Nov 22 00:04:44 PST 2004
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
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