[Sca-cooks] cakes

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Terry Decker:
>I've got the Compact Edition of the OED, copyright 1971, Tenth 
>Printing (1975).  So either the entries have been shortened or the 
>information has been added in a later revision.
>
>Bear

I had, within the past couple of years, written to them about 
"pomace", and their assertion that its first usage was, as I recall, 
some time in the 18th century, which led to some folks in my kingdom 
interpreting a 15th-century mead recipe which used the word "pomys" 
as meaning to add apples to it, while I maintained that the crushed 
stuff from the previous recipe, in this case honeycombs, was, by 
definition, "pomace", and therefore what the recipe was indicating. 
There were no apples mentioned in any previous recipe, either.

I don't know if they ever updated their entry for pomace, but I 
mailed them the pertinent info, they thanked me and said they'd check 
into it...

Adamantius

>
>
>>I don't know which edition of the OED that Bear used, but this is 
>>what the current edition says:
>>
>>[f. POUND n.1 + CAKE n.]
>>
>>    A rich cake so called as originally containing a pound (or equal 
>>weight) of each of the
>>principal ingredients, flour, butter, sugar, fruit, etc.
>>
>>  1747 H. GLASSE Art of Cookery xv. 138 Pound Cake. Take a Pound of 
>>Butter..twelve Eggs..a Pound
><clipped>
>>
>>Huette
>>
>
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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
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Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782

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