[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 55, Issue 46

[Claire Clarke]

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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:05:59 -0800
From: Karen Lyons-McGann <karenthechef at gmail.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] A More Polite Response to TV-Inspired Contest
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>When did the word 'cake' come into being?  What did it mean? off the top of
>my head, a fruit packed baked good, yes? 
>Lady Bonne

The earliest use I've seen the word 'cake' is in the late 16th century for
things that reading the recipe made me go 'that's shortbread'. I have a
recipe for a 17th century Italian fruit cake that is beginning to resemble
something like cake. This is where I've always placed the beginnings of true
cake in my mind. 

Angharad