[Sca-cooks] Period Flour Query and shortbread
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Sun Feb 11 01:28:52 PST 2007
>Actually we know that shortbreads were being eaten in Scotland
>in 1608. The Earl of Angus's dated household accounts of 1608 record
>that in one instance shortbreads were purchased; in another flour was
>sent out for their baking.
That tells us that something called shortbread was being eaten; it
doesn't tell us what it was.
Blancmange and gingerbread were being eaten in 15th c. England,
Syllabub in 17th century England, Harisa in 13th c. al Islam--and in
all four cases the dish was quite different from the later dish with
the same name.
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David Friedman
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