[Sca-cooks] Does anyone have an idea about this??

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Denise Wolff wrote:

>  	 	Subject: What on earth is "canada?"
>  	
> Besides "America's neighbor to the north," I mean.
>
> I was recently given a copy of Recipes from Locust Grove, which is  
> a collection including recipes compiled by Elizabeth Breese Morse,  
> the mother of Samuel F.B. Morse.  It was compiled prior to 1805,  
> most likely during the last quarter of the 18th century, by a woman  
> living in New York.
>
> One of her receipts is for "Canada" and starts out with "Pound your  
> Canada fine..."
>
> You make a sort of custard by pouring boiling milk and 13 egg yolks  
> with loaf sugar on it, then add 3/4 lb. butter with rosewater,  
> wine, and nutmeg.
>
> But "Canada" is beyond me.  I don't have access to the original, so  
> for all I know it's a misreading - but does anybody have any better  
> ideas?
>
> -Rebecca

One idea -- and this is by no means anything but a guess as to a  
possibility -- is that somewhere a "p" got turned into a "c", and  
you've got a recipe for panade or panada, which at various times was  
a porridge-ey / pudding-ey dish made from white bread. That  
mysterious ingredient might be stale bread. Modernly, panade survives  
as part of the process for making pate á choux, quenelles, and some  
souffles, and is made with flour.

Adamantius




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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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