[Sca-cooks] Sauerbraten

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

In the German cookbook that I have (the one written in German, printed in 
an almost unreadable Gothic font), the saurbraten recipe calls for potato 
to thicken the sauce, not gingersnaps. I think. I can check when I get 
home if I'm still conscious at that point. The cookbook, IIRC, is either 
very late 18XX or very early 19XX.

Margaret FitzWilliam

> I've got one recipe which doesn't call for gingersnaps.  While it is possible 
> that gingersnaps are a 16th Century "small cake," I have yet to see evidence 
> of the fact.
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> Bear
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>> It sounds very likely that this is the case.  Now, though...does anyone 
>> have a 'born on' date for
>> Gingersnaps??  Every 'traditional' Sauerbraten recipe I have seen uses 
>> Gingersnaps to thicken the
>> sauce, and I'm just curious to know if these 'could' have been used in one 
>> of the period recipes.
>> 
>> William de Grandfort