SC - Re: Gunthar, look at this

[Louise Sugar]

Adamantius, I've got you beat........I get close to 500messages a day  :D and that is only from the lists I still read  :D

Dragonfyr

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From:	Philip & Susan Troy [SMTP:troy at asan.com]
Sent:	Sunday, September 28, 1997 6:12 PM
To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
Subject:	Re: SC - Re: Gunthar, look at this

Louise Sugar wrote:
> 
> Kim, perhaps no one picked up on your request or thought that someone else
> had already answered. I, myself, only have a modern recipie for plum
> pudding which I will e-mail to you if you want it.
> 
> As to Rum I always use Morgan (you know the one with the pirate guy on the
> front) in the golden color....it has a lighter taste that I like
> better...but then I use it on a fruitcake type treat not plum pudding.
> 
> Dragonfyr

That's about the size of it. Personally, I didn't pick up on the request
for info on fruitcakes and/or plum pudding in period for several
reasons. The dark plum pudding that became symbolic of Victorian England
is pretty much that: Victorian. There are various steamed bag puddings
in very late and post period, but their resemblance to plum pudding is
superficial at best.

As for fruitcakes, again, while there are several recipes from very late
and post-period, they don't resemble modern fruitcake very much. The
closest you'll find to period fruitcake (a conceptually dubious term) is
Italian pannetone, or Spanish or Latin American pan dolce with fruit.
There might be a modern form of brioche with raisins that might come
close too.

Generally any leavened bread dough with some butter and raisins or
currants in it, possibly with some grated spice or other, and a glazing
of sugar on top, is pretty much what would have been known as "cake" in
period. Without the fruit, of course, it was simply bread. Virtually
none of the dark, brown, fruity masses with a hit of hard liquor existed
in period, so far as I know.

I figured that you would interpret my silence as meaning that I don't
know of any period recipes for fruitcake or plum pudding, especially
since the traffic on the two mailing lists I follow leaves me with
something like 200 or more messages to deal with each weekday. Sorry! I
didn't intend to appear rude.

Adamantius
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