[Sca-cooks] Re: Historic Cheesecake in the papers this past week
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Tue Nov 23 20:10:25 PST 2004
Selene forwarded to us:
> The fine folks at Plimoth Plantation sent back a response, citing the
> period
> source they used. Oh well, it's the right century anyway.
>
> May, Robert. The Accomplish¹t Cook. 1666. Reprint. Totnes, Devon:
> Prospect
> Books, 1994.
>
> To make cool Butter Paste for Patty pans or Pasties.
>
> Take to every peck of flour five pounds of butter, the
> whites of six
> eggs, and work it well together with cold spring water; you must
> bestow a
> great deal of pains, and but little water, or you put out the millers
> eyes.
> This paste is good only for patty pan and pasty.
Huh? So what is a "patty pan" and how does this vary from a pastie? And
what is this about the millers eyes?
Stefan
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