Fome Fugar for your coffee?

We took this picture at the Williams-Sonoma 4 storey kitchen store in San Francisco. Ruby and Jade were in town for baseball this weekend and Ruby noticed something strange about the recipe picture:


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You will notice some curious spelling mistakes in this recipe. We never noticed this when we took the picture and Ruby thought the mistakes are why we took the picture. Haha.

So this got us thinking and we wanted to know why the spelling mistakes were there. Well, through the magic of the internet, we were able to shed some light on this.


The above recipe appears to be from a old cookbook published in 1792 called The Universal Cook: And City and Country Housekeeper By Francis Collingwood, John Woollams.

Courtesy of Google, this book has been digitized here:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=xJMEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=toc&vq=fugar#PPA245,M1


If you click on the link above, you will see the term "fugar" used throughout the book and also the practice of replacing the letter "s" with the letter "f".


So there you have it, it must have been a '90s thing. The 1790s.