[Sca-cooks] Medieval German "whoopie pies"???
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Fri Sep 2 10:45:41 PDT 2011
I agree that it's a long way from a filled wafer or oblaten to a cake
made with leftover cake batter and filled with crisco. I wonder what
their historian
read that convinced her that this was the source for all things whoopie!
I think Maine
was winning the PR war and the Pennsylvania folks were scrambling for
any source
or association they could find.
I wonder what food historian William Woys Weaver has to say on the
subject.
And for that see:
"An internationally known culinary historian and author of 12 food
histories, William Woys Weaver, says neither Pennsylvania nor Maine
can claim to be the first to make whoopie pies.
Weaver, a lifelong Pennsylvania resident, pushed aside any possible
Keystone State prejudices to reveal his research on the subject.
He said the cake part of the pie may have been derived from a cake
made famous at a Berwick, Maine, train station. However, he said, "It
was altered and more or less reinvented by the Berwick Cake Company in
Massachusetts." Going back further, he said, "The cake-with-filling
idea begins with a Wiener Krapfen, a handmade Viennese Fastnacht in
existence many centuries before Berwick, Maine, even existed."
http://articles.mcall.com/2011-04-19/entertainment/mc-whoopie-pie-sidebar-history-20110419_1_whoopie-pies-amish-community-cake
Johnnae
On Sep 2, 2011, at 1:12 PM, wheezul at canby.com wrote:
> She might be extrapolating from 'krapfen' recipes. However, there
> are the
> 'gefullte oblaten' recipes that are wafers filled with marzipan, or
> figs
> and raisin, or cherry sauce and then fried. It's *sorta* like a
> filled
> cookie, especially if you are using a spiced wafer.
>
> You can read about my analysis of all the recipes I could find here:
>
> http://jillwheezul.livejournal.com/224339.html
>
> If I could find anything like cakes with cream in them in a medieval
> cookbook I would be all cookie monster on that! Gefullte oblaten are
> wonderfully delish but are a long way from a whoopie pie tho. I too
> have
> a horrible sweet tooth :)
>
> Katherine
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