SC - Pepperer's Guild

[Phil & Susan Troy]

Ras gave his worked-out version of the following 14th-c recipe:
>
>NOTES: Original: Tartys in Applies- Tak gode applys & gode spycis & figs &
>reysons & perys, & wan they arn wel brayed colour wyth safroun wel & do yt in
>a cofyn, & do yt forth to bake wel. -  Curye on Inglish
>
For comparison, here is a richer version from a different source, with eggs
and cream and butter, but with the same ground apples and/or pears and
dried fruit as yours; it is 15th c. English and, unlike yours, specifies
the spicing.  It does specify sprinkling on the sugar at the end--in this
case, cinnamon sugar.

A Flaune of Almayne
Ancient Cookery p. 452/39

First take raisins of Courance, or else other fresh raisins, and good ripe
pears, or else good apples, and pick out the cores of them, and pare them,
and grind them, and the raisins in a mortar, and do then to them a little
sweet cream of milk, and strain them through a clean strainer, and take ten
eggs, or as many more as will suffice, and beat them well together, both
the white and the yolk, and draw it through a strainer, and grate fair
white bread, and do thereto a good quantity, and more sweet cream, and do
thereto, and all this together; and take saffron, and powder of ginger, and
canel, and do thereto, and a little salt, and a quantity of fair, sweet
butter, and make a fair coffin or two, or as many as needs, and bake them a
little in an oven, and do this batter in them, and bake them as you would
bake flaunes, or crustades, and when they are baked enough, sprinkle with
canel and white sugar. This is a good manner of Crustade. [end of original;
spelling modernized]

2/3 c raisins	pinch of saffron	1/2 c whipping cream
3 pears or apples	1/2 t salt  	5 T butter
1/2 t cinnamon	3 eggs (large)	9" pie crust
1/4 t ginger	4 T breadcrumbs	1 T cinnamon sugar to sprinkle on at the end

A blender works well as a substitute for a mortar to mash the apples and
raisins; mix the liquids in with the apples and raisins before blending.
Bake at 375° for about an hour.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook (only a week behind the list, now)


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