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[Lilinah biti-Anat]

>Panforte is 13th Century (IIRC).  Panatonne is probably late period.  There
>are some Elizabethean "cakes" with fruit worked into the dough.  So I would
>say that some types of fruitcakes are period, but the fruitcake you are
>referring to may not be.
>
>Bear

Wow! I just bought two panforte at the local Italian deli. I asked my 
daughter, who's away at college, what food she'd like me to have in 
the house (other than the stocks of dried, canned, and quick cooking 
stuff i've set aside in case we actually feel the effects of Y2K) 
when she arrives home on Jan. 2 (she's spending the first two weeks 
of her vacations at her dad's) and panforte was one of the two things 
she requested.

I had no idea they went back that far, although a sweet of dried 
fruit/fruit cake seems like it could possibly be "period". No one has 
yet sent a "period" recipe in my request for fruit cakes. Anyone know 
where there's a historic recipe for panforte? Or is it just described 
in literature?

Anahita al-shazhiya
licking her lips...
Hmmm, flaming salamander tastes pretty good...
or did you mean the fireplace utensil, Lord Ras?

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