SC - recipe request

[Decker, Terry D.]

Also another who is looking for a medieval chocolate cake recipe.  Is
chocolate even period?

Merry Yule, Puck

Chocolate is barely within SCA period and certainly not in common use,
so a medieval chocolate cake is out.  It's original use was as a bitter
beverage, later sweetened with sugar and milk.  The Spanish brought it
to Spain about 1527, but it did not really catch on in Europe until
mid-17th Century.  The great use of chocolate really didn't get underway
until the 19th Century after Conrad J Van Houten developed the process
to extract the cocoa oils (1828 C.E.).  

For the Current Middle Ages, chocolate is period at the whim of the
Crown, and I would use a version of Hersey's Best Chocolate Cake recipe.
 I would not try to fob it off at a feast.

Bear
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