SC - Cheesecake and Lent

[david friedman]

At 11:11 AM -0700 2/21/98, Morgan wrote:
>	Greetings one and all!!
>
>	Here is the promised chhesecake recipe.  It was a redaction for the Jan
>4th, 1997 Wooden Spoon competition for Twelfth Nite  (West).   I do not
>fnow from whence it came, nor has the  Most Gracious Master Duncan of
>Saxthorpe as yet answered my request.   Anyone who recognizes the recipe,
>please tell me where it originated.

_Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books_, p. 75.

>	This was my rendition of the above recipe:
...
>is salty enough)  and poured into an unbaked pastry shell.
...

One reservation--do we have good reason to believe that the "coffyn of
faire paast" would be pastry in the modern sense (with butter or something
similar) rather than paste in the sense of a flour/water dough? We
generally do such recipes as pastry, but I am not at all sure we should.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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