Genoise -- 1838

[Victor Steinbok]

That was cut-and-pasted directly from the website, so your beef (or egg)
is with the dictionary.

While on the subject. I was just looking at a 1834 cookbook (Parisian
Cook-book) that had "Genoise" as a category right next to "Madelene". In
fact, the word "genoise" only appeared twice in the entire text, while
the plural was all over the place ("genoises"). I'll post on this later,
unless someone beats me to the punch and gets it pushed back even
further. I might post this one anyway, as there is an additional twist
to this particular appearance.

     VS-)

On 4/8/2011 2:28 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:52 AM, victor steinbok<aardvark66 at gmail.com>  quoted:
>> "... leavened _by_ stiffly beaten eggs"
> FWIW, IMO, this should read
>
> "... leavened _with_ stiffly beaten eggs"
>
>
> Considering that I've heard and seen _by_ in the relevant environment
> surely hundreds of thousands of times since at least 1970, I'm well
> aware that mine is extremely likely to be a minority<har! har!>
> position. But, IAC, I'm simply wondering whether even one other reader
> agrees with this particular intuition.
>
> --
> -Wilson

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