SC - Making Comfits

[Olwen the Odd]

Aoife, are you bring some of your comfits to Crusades?  Morningstar began 
making some, but after she burned to sugar syrup... anyway, I am salvaging 
what I can and will bring.  We can compare notes.
olwen


>From: "Bethany Public Library" <betpulib at ptdprolog.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: SC - Making  Comfits
>Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:23:00 -0400
>
>Hey, all.
>
>I just finished making comfits according to a plan I devised (heavy, heavy
>sugar syrup poured sparingly on them, then rolling them in dry sugar,
>repeating the process intil they grow in size, then drying them in a
>slighl\t;y warm oven), only to find some excellent comfit advice waiting 
>for
>me in my mail box. The newest Compleat Anachronist (Elise Flemming and 
>Cindy
>Renfrew) shows some recipes, the first of which is almost exactly how I 
>made
>mine.
>
>I recall someone else making comfits and sharing their process (involved a
>marble slab), and I think it was the hugh plat recipe. Adamantius, maybe?
>Anybody remember?
>
>At any rate, I found that I *could* mingle them with my hand quite
>successfully, if the syrup cooled a slight bit, the ladle was small-ish, 
>the
>syrup was poured sparingly, and was poured from a great height as the 
>recipe
>advises. But my comfits are fairly "rough" and uneven in size. I'm going to
>make more tonight or tomorrow, and try the colored varieties.
>
>Any one else with comfit making experience that could share? It's too late
>for my feast, but it's never too late to learn.
>
>Aoife---suddenly fascinated with a subject she's managed to ignore till 
>now.
>
>
>
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