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

[Terry Decker]

Looks like I'm losing mail.  I didn't get the start of this thread.

As the good Cap'n points out, "corn" is a generic word for grain, but if you 
are looking for period European references to using maize, try the herbal of 
Hieronymus Bock (1539) where he describes it as being used to make good 
bread and mush, Leonard Fuchs Herbal (1543) where he comments that the make 
fine white meal to bake bread, and Gonzalo Fernando de Oviedo's General and 
natural histoy of the West Indies (1556) commenting on bread being made from 
maize in Madrid.

Bear

> >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."
>
> Capt Elias