SC - Meatballs

[Charles McCathieNevile]

The Anglo Norman Culinary collections, ed Hieatt and Jones, include a 
'soteltie' of sorts, of 'oranges' - actually meatballs made of pork mince 
and eggs, boiled, then grilled and rolled in egg yolk and saffron to make 
them golden, then dusted in sugar. When Oranges were expensive fruits 
they may hav been like what the last orange looked like, _from memory_. 
The same collection give some recipes for Turk's Head - anoter 'soteltie'.

By the way, does anybody know 
1. When Europeans started making reasonably edible pastry in the modern 
style, as opposed to flour and water to hold stuff together
2. When the soteltie became a commmon practice? It has roots that go as 
far as Petronius - Trimalchio's dinner, but I don't kow what appened in 
medieval europe of the 11C (brown goo period, ;). 

Charles Ragnar
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