[Sca-cooks] re:dumplings

[Daniel Myers]

On Sep 22, 2004, at 1:42 PM, amanda sears wrote:

>  I am looking in a book I am reading now and the first RECORDED recipe 
> in a recipe book is from 1653. The dumplings were made of flour, 
> pepper, salt, yeast and water, made into tiny manchets and boiled in 
> water for an hour. These were served buttered. Earlier dumplings it 
> says would have been cooked in a broth in the stew pot.

Yeast as the leavening  -  makes sense.  Just post-period, but that's 
not a biggie.  What's the book?

- Doc


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