SC - Florilegium

[Stefan li Rous]

Laurene:

Here is my grandmother's Challah recipe.

1/3 cup shortening
2 tbs each honey and sugar
1 tsp salt
4 eggs, 
1 cup lukewarm water with a 1/2 tsp sugar
2 pkgs yeast
4-5 cups flour

Place yeast in cup of water with sugar to start.  Cream shortening, salt,
honey and sugar.  Add the eggs one at a time (Beat each egg slightly before
adding).  When yeast starts bubbling add to egg-shortening mixture.  Add
flour until dough is formed.  Knead dough for about 10 minutes until
elastic.  Place in covered, greased bowl and let rise until double in bulk
(about 2-3 hours).  Punch down and knead another 10 minutes.  Shape into
braid or knots.  Set on greased baking sheets and cover.  Let rise again
until double in size (about 2-3 hours).  Brush a mixture of beaten egg and
honey on the loaves and bake on 350 for 1 hour or until golden brown.

Enjoy!

Sindara




At 02:39 AM 2/6/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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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>Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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