[Sca-cooks] re:dumplings

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- amanda sears <kissesmomof4 at msn.com> 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. 
> ~Amanda~

While this may be true for English cookery, it
isn't so for other countries.  I just posted two
dumpling recipes from Sabina Welserin which is
1533.

Huette

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