Peanut Brittle - Sorta
Peanut Brittle - aka Ground Nut Candy This Historical Food Fortnightly Challenge (HFF #3. 3) is The Tiffany Problem: Have you ever come across a dish that is older than you expected? That seems like it should be an anachronism, but isn't? Now's the time to give it a try. Before we start, here's some background information on the term "Tiffany Problem." According to Helen Vnuk, writing on MamaMia (April 25, 2018) "... there’s an expression coined by the fantasy writer Jo Walton: The Tiffany Problem. It describes “the tension between historical fact and the popular perception of history”. In other words, it’s when a writer who has done painstaking research puts historically correct information into a novel, and readers complain that they’ve got it wrong, just because it looks wrong, when it’s actually right. “Tiffany is a real attested medieval name,” Walton explained in an interview with the Internet Review Of Science Fiction. “It’s a vari...