SC - Desserts (was planning a German Feast)

[Rosalyn MacGregor]

Someone wrote:


> >problem with the concept of a dessert course in that I
> >have yet to see a period menu that contained a true
> >dessert course.  But if there is one, I hope that
> >someone will tell me where to find it.  From what I
> >have researched, the concept of a dessert is not
> >really
> >period.  While they did have sweet dishes, they were
> >always part of the regular course and not segregated.
> >The closest to a "dessert" that I can think of is
> >the spectacle dish or the subletie, but these usually
> >were served between the courses.


The Dessert Course I think you must be referring to is the Banquet, and it
seems to have had its heyday in the Elizabethan and Jacobean times.

Yours,
Rosalyn MacGregor
(Pattie Rayl)