SC - Skye Cake

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Ian van Tets wrote:
> 
> No, the recipe I use does not boil anything.  At university at
> present.  Will post recipe (OOP) as soon as I can get it here.
> 
> Cairistiona

Hence my use of the term "variant". The fruit in boiled fruitcake isn't
boiled either, it is steeped in boiling water for a while. Some barm
brack recipes call for boiling beer, and some steep the fruit in cold or
room-temperature beer (or ale). Oddly enough, none of the barm brack
recipes, at least under that name, that I've seen, seem to be leavened
with beer barm. They may have been, once, but recipes indicating this
seem not to have survived, probably because home brewing in the British
Isles seems to have been on temporary holiday between the eighteenth and
twentieth centuries, so the wherewithall wasn't easily available.

For documentation of what may seem like an odd claim on the British
practice of home-brewing, I refer you to Bickerdyke's "Curiosities of
Ale and Beer", and Clive La Pensee's "Historical Companion to
House-Brewing", which deal with the decline and fall of the home brewer
in the late eighteenth / early nineteenth century, and the rise of
legislation (in 1964, I believe) that enabled the British and Irish
private citizen to brew practically at home, and the rise of the
practice in the 1970's, respectively.

Adamantius

"I got a kit at Boot's that allows me to make a dustbin full of Pernod
for fourpence..."
						Alexei Sayle, 1989
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