[Sca-cooks] Hartshorn Re: Reasons why period cakes aren'tmodern cakes

[Terry Decker]

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

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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