SC - Hello & Questions
Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Thu May 1 10:39:01 PDT 1997
>Hello
>Lady Rowan the Capricious here.
>
>I want to know if there are any kinds of cake
>type frostings or icings that were used in
>period cooking?
>
>Cheers,
>Rowan
Icing, yes. You find in sources like Gervase Markham and Kenelm Digby
cake recipes that include instructions to sprinkle a cake with finely
powdered sugar and put it back in the oven to glaze. This produces a
hard-crack sugar shell.
I believe some cakes are sprinkled with rosewater first, but I could be
confusing some vague memory here...
Adamantius
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