[Sca-cooks] period breakfasts

[Laura C. Minnick]

"Pixel, Queen of Cats" wrote:

> There are some lovely period recipes that are not, strictly speaking,
> *breakfast* recipes per se, but they look awfully like things that we eat
> as breakfast these days. Frumenty, oatcakes, pain perdu, a lovely fruit-
> filled french toast-y thing from Guter Spise, sawgeat (fried eggs and
> sausage and sage), cryspes, fritters of various kinds, fruit purees,
> custard tarts, fruit tarts, Digby's cheesecakes (which are really nice for
> breakfast), and cuskynoles. [Yep, had to mention cuskynoles. ;-)]

WHAT!?!? You have Digby's Cheescake for breakfast?!?! Are you guys
mutants? When I make it, By the time I turn around from putting away the
knife I cut it with, it's GONE! If I get any at all, it is because I
stabbed someone in the back of the hand. I cannot imagine leftovers...

'Lainie
House-mother and Mommy to teenagers...