SC - wafers

[david friedman]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
>> You cooked the wafers the day before the feast? How did you serve them? Did
>> you serve them cool? I had gotten the idea that wafers should be served
>> warm and fresh, so I hadn't considered it workable for a normal SCA feast.

and Adamantius answered:
>Think in terms of how wafers are made, and their overall mass to volume
>ratio. They cool off pretty quickly, and a wafer iron makes one, or a
>couple, at a time, and as a period cooking utensil probably was fairly
>specialized and probably not especially cheap. Then you make them in
>batches and, as seems to be documented in many cases, go out and hawk
>them on the street like many another specialty merchant.
>
>I don't know they'd have been eaten days old, but I imagine getting them
>in quantity where all of them are hot off the irons is unlikely.

Rufina regularly brings pre-made wafers to the war, and they are fine as
long as they stay in a sealed container. If they sit out overnight they
tend to get limp. I believe she uses one of Le Menagier's recipes--very
tasty, but I don't know the recipe.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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