SC - Re: SC/gingerbread?adobe bricks

[lwperkins]

> fra nicol#162# difrancesco (mka nick sasso) wrote:
(re gingerbread)
> >min I believe).  It was rich......you didn't need more than a
> >quarter-sized piece at most to be satisfied.  It is not light or airy in
> >any sence of the word.  They made a similar consistance substance in the
> >New Worls about the same time which they dried in the sun and used to
> >build houses........Adobe I think.
And Derdriu wrote,
 
> I hope you are not suggesting that inhabitants of the New World used
bread to
> make their houses.  Adobe is a baked mud brick -- the exact formula, I
don't
> know, I believe has some clay worked into it.

Amusingly enough, I've made more adobe bricks in my life than done medieval
recipes (I'm a mud-patty-making child of Southern California) The brick
recipe is pretty much take SoCal dirt, form a patty, dry it, bake it in a
hot oven or the summer sun until done, and serve it forth. It's even
period, for your late-period personas. I found  the good Father's remarks
to be helpful , since I now know what consistency I'm looking for, even
though they were said in jest.
- --Ester du Bois