SC - [Fwd: [Apicius] must cakes & doughnuts]

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

And it came to pass on 24 Feb 99,, that Decker, Terry D. wrote:

> Make globes thus:  Mix together equal amounts of cheese and alica.  Then
> shape (the globes) as large as you like.  Drop them in hot fat in a copper
> pan.  Cook one or two at a time, turning them often with two paddles. 
> When they are cooked, remove, cover them with honey, sprinkle with poppy,
> and serve thus.

This somewhat resembles a Spanish recipe for cheese fritters, 
although it is definitely leavened, and also includes eggs.

(Anticipating Ras' mantra):

>From _Libro de Guisados_ (1529)

TORONJAS DE XATIVA QUE SON ALMOJAVANAS -- "Grapefruits" 
of Xativa Which are Cheese Cakes

You must take new cheese and curd cheese, and pound them in a mortar 
together with eggs.  Then take dough and knead those cheeses with the 
curd cheese, together with the dough, and when everything is 
incorporated and kneaded take a very clean casserole, and cast into it a 
good quantity of sweet pork fat or fine sweet oil, and when the pork 
grease or oil boils, make some balls from said dough, like toy balls or 
round oranges, and cast them into the casserole in such a manner that 
the ball goes floating in the casserole, and you can also make fritters of 
the dough, or whatever shapes and ostentations you wish, and when 
they are the color of gold, take them out, and cast in as many others; and 
when everything is fried, put it on plates, and cast honey upon it, and 
upon them honey, ground sugar and cinnamon.  However note one 
thing: that you must put a bit of leaven in the cheeses and in the eggs, 
and in the other put flour, and when you make the balls, grease your 
hands with a little fine oil: and then they go to the casserole, and when it 
is inside, if the dough crackles it is a signal that it is very soft; and you 
must cast in more flour until it is harder; and when the fritter is made and 
fried, cast your honey on it and sugar and cinnamon on top as is said 
above.

Brighid


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
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