[Sca-cooks] Natural Magick as a Culinary source?

[Barbara Benson]

On 10/19/05, Jeff Gedney <gedney1 at iconn.net> wrote:
> >Is this a reference to Europeans making a sort of bread out of Maize
> >in period? Has anyone seen anything like this?
>
> In Europe, "Corn" is a "generic" term for Grain.
> (Just as "Pulse" is a "generic" term for peas and beans)
>
> So read this as
> "In the ancient days they made Bread of diverse kinds of grain and
> beans."

Greetings,

Of that I was already aware, but in fact a very good point to make.
But that is not the portion of the quote that I found intriguing,
further down the comment:

"Of the Indian Mais, heavy Bread is made and not pleasant at all, very
dry and earthy next to Millet."

and it struck me that the term Mais was awefully close to the term
Maize, which I believe is the term Europeans use to this day for what
we call Corn.

Glad Tidings,
Serena da Riva