[Sca-cooks] cakes

[Huette von Ahrens]

They already have, as you are not using the latest edition.  See my previous message.

Huette

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> The Oxford English Dictionary lists uses of a word or phrase.  Does the 
> recipe specifically use the term pound cake?  If so, write the OED staff and 
> let them know.  They'll probably add it to the usage list in the next 
> edition.
> 
> Bear
> 
> 
> >    This just sounded wrong, so I pulled out one of my 18th century
> > cookbooks.  Just the first one I grabbed, which happened to be Hannah
> > Glasse, THE ART OF COOKERY MADE PLAIN AND EASY.  This book, on page 309, 
> > has
> > a receipt for pound cake.  Most of the ingredients are in the quantity of 
> > a
> > pound.  This is the revised version of 1796 Though the forward says that
> > only the soap and beer receipts were added to the previous 1745 edition. 
> > I
> > have no idea when pound cakes first appear, and would not be surprised if
> > they are not period to the SCA, but they do predate Thackery and 1841.
> >
> > Ranald de Balinhard
> 
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