Re(2): SC - Feast Themes/gingerbread

[Sue Wensel]

fra nicol#162# difrancesco (mka nick sasso) wrote:
>The recipe that was served at one of my feasts consisted of dry bread
>crumbs, honey, ginger, cinnamon, and black pepper to prove you
>affluence.  It was mixed and baked at 300F for a short time (15 to 20
>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.

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.

Derdriu