SC - Food In History

[rachel mccormack]

Laurene asked:
>    I will be going to an SCA Pot-Luck Revel on Feb. 12th and I want to
> bring a Sort of Bread and Dip recipe.  One time I saw a "recipe" of sorts
> on here for a Bread Peacock.  I don't know if I'm up to all that, too many
> feathers for the tail, but I thought maybe a BREAD SWAN would be a good
> idea?  I was wondering if anyone has a semi-period bread recipe that would
> work for making a shaped bread like this?

I would suggest taking a look at some of my Florilegium files. From your
description above I think I would look in this file in the FOOD-SWEETS
section:
sotelties-msg    (152K)  4/15/99    Sotelties and Warners - decorated food.
 
>    I think a Challah recipe would work for this, or even a French Bread
> recipe.  But if someone has tried some other recipe that would have some
> history behind it that I could post on a sign with the bread, that would be
> really neat.  Any constructive suggestions would be welcome.

However, for the bread recipes and I remember putting several Challah
recipes in there, I would look at this file in the FOOD-BREAD section:
breadmaking-msg  (190K)  1/14/00    Period bread recipes and re-creations.

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