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[CBlackwill at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/29/00 6:39:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, Elysant at aol.com 
writes:

>  have not seen any recipes with money in them as an ingredient - outside of 
>  Christmas Pudding that is....  Are there other Period Recipes with this I 
>  wonder?  And is the money always associated with luck or good 
>  fortune/vitality etc?


I know I have the reference somewhere, and you'll have to bear with me until 
I find it, but I have seen a recipe from  the mid-late 1400's describing a 
cake covered in very thin gold leaf.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

Man cannot live on bread alone... he must have beer to soak it in.