SC - Re: Kuskenole, a question

[Elaine Koogler]

This sounds wonderful....but I may be missing something.  I understand about
making the lattice, etc., but wonder how you would keep the pieces together, even
if you wove them instead of just laying one on top of the other, while boiling?
Even if you use egg white to hold them together as you do other kinds of pastry,
particularly that which is stuffed ( like cuskynoles????), it would seem to me
that they would fall apart either when putting them into the water or when taking
them out.

Kiri

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> RuddR at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > What is the cressee recipe?  What medieval recipe collection is it in?   Is
> > there really an illustration that goes with it?  Where can I find this
> > source?  I'd be interested in seeing this material.
>
> Constance Hieatt and Robin Jones, "Two Anglo-Norman Culinary Collections
> Edited from British Library Manuscripts Additional 32085 and Royal
> 12.C.xii", Speculum v. 61, October 1986, pp 859-882.
>
> The original recipes are in 13th-century French, with an English
> translation by Hieatt and Jones. Here's what it sez for cressee,
> translated from Add. 32085 :
>
> "5. Cressee [crisscross of noodles]. Here is another dish, which is
> called cresee.Take best white flour and eggs, and make pasta dough, and
> in the pasta dough put fine, choice ginger and sugar. Take half of the
> pastry, (which is or should be) colored with saffron, and half (which is
> or should be) white, and roll it out on a table to the thickness of your
> finger; then cut it into strips, then cut it into strips the size of a
> piece of lath; stretch it out on a table as illustrated [see diagram,
> one color is presumably to be crossed over the other]; then boil in
> water; then take a slotted spoon and remove the cressees from the water;
> then arrange them on, and cover them with, grated cheese, add butter or
> oil, and serve."
>
> The diagram is a rectangular grid 4 squares high by eight wide.
> >
> > Rudd Rayfield
> >
> > P. S.  I have my own opinions as to what Cuskynoles look like, but I promise
> > I'll never tell.
>
> Come, come now! Are you Whig or Tory? Blue or Leek Green? Guelph or
> Gi... Gi... that other thing? Not telling, huh? Wuss! ;  ) Whassamatta,
> afraid we're gonna be mean to you? Why, I oughtta...
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
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