SC - wafer help

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius replied to my questions about period wafer cones with:
> 
> The Larousse (that's Larousse, not Li Rous ;  )  ) Gastronomique speaks
> of the habit of rolling wafers into both tubes and cornucopia while hot,
> becoming brittle as they cool, and says the practice is quite old. 

Thanks for the referance! Do we know if this "quite old" goes into period?
Or is this a case of being cautious as mentioned in other works dealing
with "traditional" food being old and yet old being only a century or two?
 
> But yes, they do seem to at least imply that rolling wafers into cones
> was not unheard of in period. The main problem is that the recipes and
> other information we have suggests wafers weren't always crispy enough
> to make holding a formed shape likely. I wonder if a cone might have
> been wrapped around cheese?

What little I've got talks more of cheese being squished between two
wafers or being put into the batter. As far as crispness, there is a
period illumination on page 77 of "Fast and Feast" of a lady cooking
a wafer. She is holding it vertically with her fingers at the bottom.
of the wafer. If this is accurate, and a wafer, it would have to be
pretty stiff not to curl over. The wafer looks to be eight to ten
inches in diameter. The caption says Flemish, first quarter of the
14th century.

Bonne, I thought at first this was one of the books on your list.
But yours is "Food and Feast". I'm about a third of the way through
this book and am enjoying it. There are points where I have questions
or disagree, but that probably true of all books. I think this is a
good book, with lots of footnotes, about medieval food. There are
some paragraphs that I want to quote for this list when I find time
for it.

Stefan
PS: Thanks for all the pizelle source info. They appear to be more
common than I had thought from earlier comments. Still looking for
more wafer recipes and referances, though.

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