[Sca-cooks] Midrealm Cooks' Collegium

[Elaine Koogler]

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Alys Katharine described the recent Middle Kingdom Cooks' Collegium
> and mentioned some of the foods at the feast that night and
> mentioned:
> > and wow! a fresh cheese coated in a flavored sugar syrup,
>
> Interesting. Sounds like a rather unusual combination. What kind
> of cheese was this done with? A recently made cream? or farmers
> type cheese? A rather mild cheese so that it didn't conflict with
> the sugar syrup, I guess. Did this form a hard shell? Or did it
> mostly just soak into the cheese? Or was it more like a coating of
> sugarpaste? Do we have any evidence of this treatment for cheese
> being period?

Yes, according to the lady who taught the class on early Indian cooking, it
is.  It was a cheese very much like the Indian paneer...a sort of medium
hardness done in a lovely sugar syrup...and no, it didn't form a hard shell
on the cheese.

Kiri
     "A stroke of the brush does not guarantee Art from the bristles"

                                                     --  Kosh