SC - biscotti

[david friedman]

At 1:19 PM +0000 10/21/98, Ian van Tets wrote:
>Hello again,
>
>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?

Are you by any chance thinking of prince biscuit from Hugh Platt's
cookbook? That is what it sound's like.

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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