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[Terry Decker]

Most of the great households hired a guild baker and average people who made
their own bread usually didn't write the recipe down.  So most of the
mysteries stayed with the guild.  There are about five or six recipes which
have survived.  Most of those are in the Florilegium.

When I first did the manchet recipe, the rise failed and I got what I
referred to as Francis Drake's bowling balls.  The next experiment worked
much better.

Well, I better get back to preparing the Elizabethan wedding dinner I'm
catering this afternoon.

Bear



>   I am using a Manchet recipe,fromThe Good Huswifes HandMade
>     for the kitchen and sent to me by yourself(Thank You!)
>   the loaves are happily in the oven and looking nice
>    thus far.the books that I have so far dont give any
>   recipes for Bread making,altho they give plenty for
>   using.The bakers and the bakers guilds of days past must have
>    had an iron lock that is yet to be opened on the recipes
>   for this staple.
>
>   AethelWulf