[Sca-cooks] Period Flour Query and shortbread

[David Friedman]

>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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