[Sca-cooks] Don't Trust the Internet!

[Elaine Koogler]

Weird!!  I would have thought that just the fact that you have two names,
which she cited, would have clued her into the fact that you might not be a
period person!  I'm almost afraid to google myself!

Kiri

On 2/6/07, Elise Fleming <alysk at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings!  While being a bit at loose ends at my son's home in Austin, I
> decided to "google" my name again since he has broadband and I have dial-up
> at home.  What a surprise to find that I'm older than I thought!  There are
> several repetitions of the "history", below on various people's web sites,
> but I thought you might want to know that according to the internet, I'm
> actually a "period person"!  Here's the main article:
>
> A brief history of pumpkin pie
>
> As early as 1621, early American settlers made pie by filling a hollowed
> out shell with milk, honey and spices, then baking it in hot ashes. The
> Native Americans brought pumpkins as gifts to the first settlers, and taught
> them the many uses for the pumpkin. This is what developed into pumpkin pie
> about 50 years after the first Thanksgiving in America.
>
> By 1671, early settlers of New England brought English cookery and English
> cookbooks with them to the new world. "The Compleat Cook," by Dame Alys
> Katharine of Ashthorne Glen (Elise Fleming), was one of the cookbooks used
> in Plymouth Colony that actually had a recipe for pumpkin pie.
>
> It was not until 1796 that a truly American cookbook, Amelia Simmons'
> "American Cookery," was published. It was the first American cookbook
> written and published in America, and the first cook book that developed
> recipes for foods native to America. Her pumpkin puddings were baked in a
> crust and similar to present day pumpkin pies.
>
> (c) 2004 Linda Stradley, whatscookingamerica.net.
>
> Alys Katharine, not really that old!
>
>
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