SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #156

[L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt]

Brid Hecgwiht wrote:

> I am looking for medieval or *early* renaissance recipes for meringue. 

If you hear about any, please let me know.  Meringue recipes seem to be
conspicuous by their absence: we know that medieval people separated
eggs, we know that they beat eggs (sorta -- it's usually described as
"draw them through a strainer"), and we know that medieval cooks built
sculpture and illusion foods, for which meringue would seem ideally
suited.  But I don't know of any recipes for it.

					mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
                                                 Stephen Bloch
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                                        Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University