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

James Chevallier jimcheval at aol.com
Sat Oct 5 06:45:43 PDT 2013


 And since millet has been used as a leavening agent since the Romans, that seems especially likely.

 

Jim Chevallier
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-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sat, Oct 5, 2013 6:06 am
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Hartshorn Re: Reasons why period cakes aren'tmodern cakes


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.
>
>YIS
>
>Giano

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