SC - biscotti
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Wed Oct 21 07:29:07 PDT 1998
> 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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