Re(2): SC - Feast Themes/gingerbread

[Michael F. Gunter]

> From swensel at brandegee.lm.com Wed Jun 18 10:57:27 1997
> Date: 18 Jun 1997 12:01:30 -0500
> From: "Sue Wensel" <swensel at brandegee.lm.com>
> Subject: Re(2): SC - Feast Themes/gingerbread
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> 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
> 
> 

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Gunthar