[Sca-cooks] cakes

[Ron Carnegie]

  The receipt I listed was entitled POUND CAKE sorry if I didn't make that
clear in the original post.

Ranald de Balinhard

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> From: sca-cooks-bounces+r.carnegie=verizon.net at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+r.carnegie=verizon.net at ansteorra.org]On Behalf
> Of Huette von Ahrens
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 1:26 AM
> To: Cooks within the SCA
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] cakes
>
>
> 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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