[Sca-cooks] Lebkuchen question

[Terry Decker]

> --- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>> While digging through the Oxford Companion to Food, you might also want 
>> to
>> take a look at the entry on honey cakes.  The articles are interesting, 
>> but
>> not particularly useful in trying to work out the history of the dish. 
>> (I
>> would prefer a few more source references).
>>
>> Bear
>
> You have problems with Piroska Weiner's book, "Carved Honeycake Mounds"?
>
> Or Sarah Kelly's book, "Baking in Austria, Germany and Switzerland"?
>
> Huette

No.  But a single reference in an entry raises the question of accuracy. 
While there is always a chance for error, the more sources, preferably the 
more disparate sources, the more likely the article is correct.  Also, the 
greater the number of sources, the more likely one can find pointers to the 
primary sources or research needed to advance one's work.

Bear