[Sca-cooks] cakes

[Terry Decker]

I checked the OED 2nd Ed., c. 1989 while I was at the state library this 
morning for pound cake.  The Glass entry is the first one cited, and the 
entry is more extensive than the one in my copy.

As I recall, they were supposed to release a new revision of the OED a few 
years ago, so maybe your correction has made it in.

Bear

> 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