[Sca-cooks] origins of genoise/sponge cake

[Johnna Holloway]

Food Timeline indicates 19th century.
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcakes.html#genoise

Michael Krondl goes into the subject in a footnote in his Sweet Invention: A History of Dessert volume. See page 152. He says name is 19th century.

I have a post surgical appt today to see about the ankle. They took the hardware out last Thursday. If I am able, I'll try some of my academic sources later.

Johnnae
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> On Oct 15, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Sandra J. Kisner <sjk3 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
> Joe Pastry is writing about genoise these days (an offshoot of a Black Forest Cake post), and was asked where it came from.  He speculates, but does anybody here have more (or better) information?  He says it may have begun mid-16th century:  http://www.joepastry.com/2014/where-does-genoise-come-from/  (I like how the first reference in English seems to have come from Jane Austin.