[Sca-cooks] sour cabbage - german recipe

[Adele de Maisieres]

Elaine Koogler wrote:

> Yes, that's the way it's made...I remember my mother making it that 
> way and boy was it great!
>
> However...do you have any documentation for this...or a period 
> recipe?  It's kind of like my shortbread recipe.  I am as sure as I'm 
> sitting here that the recipe I use is period..1 part sugar to 2 parts 
> butter to 4 parts flour...how could it not be?  And there are period 
> recipes out there that are very similar (Shropshire cakes, for one).  
> And my recipe came from a cookbook containing a number of traditional 
> Scottish recipes...published by the Rural Women's group in Scotland.  
> But...I don't have an actual period recipe for it.  So, while I do 
> periodically make it for feasts, I have to say that it is in the style 
> of period cakes,but undocumented.
>

I'll see if I can dig up some general references, but to the best of my 
knowledge, there is no known surviving recipe.  But this is one of the 
very few cases where it's so simple and so straightforward, it's likely 
that the modern method and period methods are the same.

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Adele de Maisieres

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