SC - jumbles or cracknels recipe needed

[Stefan li Rous]

> Actually, the Florilegum doesn't have any recipes fitting any criteria.
> I just went and re-checked the bread, breadmaking and pretzel files and
> there are no pretzel or jumble or cracknel recipes. Between Woldmother
> and I, there are now two to go in there. The references I re-posted were
> as close as I found.

Well, I think *some* of the recipes fit *some* criteria. :-) Just not yours.

Deciding where to put things is sometimes fuzzy. You might check the
cookies-msg file but I think I just put sweetened things in there.

Thanks to a suggestion from Bear on how to break up the breadmaking-msg
file, I may create a file for unleavened breads and I guess jumble or
cracknel recipes would end up there. Can someone give me a good definitions
of cracknels and jumbles.

> I don't mind a recipe with boiling. I'm planning on serving these along
> with a pea soup flavored with ginger (Recipe#1 in "the Medieval Kitchen,
> the Cretonee of new peas we discussed last month.)  One of the
> autocrat's requests was NOT to start with cheap cheddar and bread as per
> usual for our area.  Despite the correctness or not we cooks have been
> discussing in another thread, she's just plain sick of seeing it.  I
> decided on the soup and I thought we had discussed the various cracker
> like objects and that there would be a recipe in Stefan's files.  I left
> actually looking for them until this late.

If you end up serving pretzels, perhaps you could take an idea from some
of the period pictures of pretzels, where they show the vender walking 
around the streets carrying a stick from which the pretzels are strung.
I think this would be wonderful for an SCA fair event, but I think it
could work well with regular feast servers as well. In this case, I was
thinking of the servers each serving their tables this way. But another
idea would be to have a free-roaming server who simply walked around the
hall during the feast offering pretzels to those who wanted them.

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Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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