[Sca-cooks] Hartshorn Re: Reasons why period cakes aren'tmodern cakes
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Sat Oct 5 06:05:59 PDT 2013
That's probably right. If you will permit me to speculate a little; a
literal translation would be "deer corn." The most common European millets
have roughly conical heads that look like horns, so it is very possible that
the references to antler (horn) are a reference to the heads of millet.
Bear
----- Original Message -----
In Rumpolt, Hirse, Hirsen, Hierse, Hierß, Hirsch all refer to millet.
Ranvaig
>It may, but by now I suspect it's actually about millet. I'm looking into
>parallels to see whether that's likely. It certainly sounds viable from the
>instructions.
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>YIS
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>Giano
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