[Sca-cooks] A little article I wrote on Le Menagier's sausages...

[David Friedman]

>Cool
>(Oh and we can date shortbreads dated to 1597 now.
>The DSL includes a quotation dated 1597 for:
>Four schort breid and ane buist of confeitis; )
>
>Johnnae


That tells us that there was something called "schort breid" in 1597. 
It doesn't tell us what it was. We can date "gingerbrede" back to the 
14th century--but not what we call "gingerbread." At least not so far 
as I know.

What's the earliest actual recipe for shortbread that we have?
-- 
David/Cariadoc
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