SC - biscotti

[Decker, Terry D.]

> just a short message to the lady who said that biscotti weren't 
> period (I'm catching up on old posts after my trip):  try the recipe 
> for Biskit Bread from the English corpus.  I've forgotten what book 
> it comes out of - Huswife's Jewell, I think - perhaps someone can 
> help me there?  I've made it (and cheated on the beating time, which 
> was a bad idea - if it says beat it for an hour, 15 mins is not 
> enough) and it was very close.  I cut it too thick and it was 
> rocklike, but maybe you can do a better job.  It's basically standard 
> biscotti with fennel seed (IIRC) flavouring, plus rosewater, and it's 
> good.  Come to think of it, why not institute this hour-long 
> cake-beating thing as a form of fighter training?
> 
> Cairistiona
> 
The recipe I gave is definitely OOP.  While twice baked breads are period,
the ones I've seen mentioned are mostly travel breads resembling hardtack
more than modern biscotti.  

I don't have the recipe for Biskit Bread, and I would be interested in
seeing it should anyone have a copy to post.

Bear  
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