SC - Re: Sweet and Savory

[Nicholas Sasso]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
> 
> what is a "doucette"? I'm guessing "a little <something>", but
> what? A pie of some type?

A doucette is a custard tart in the 14th-15thC English recipe corpus,
sweetened with honey or sugar, usually colored with saffron, and it may
or may not have something like marrow added to it, IIRC. It's hard to
keep track of all those vaguely custardy crustades, flaons, flathonys,
doucetys, etc.

Adamantius
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