SC - OOP - recipe request

[Philip & Susan Troy]

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This sounds like fun!  Can you post the Official Period Recipes so we can
reproduce this contest in other kingdoms?

Selene, habitual instigator

Daniel Phelps wrote:

> Good Gentles of the List:
>
> Come an event in April there is to be a cheese cake baking duel down here in
> southern Trimaris.  Originally it was intended to be the baking of "mundane"
> cheese cakes but I stuck a spoon in the bowl and now a least one of the
> cheese cakes to be made by each of the two protagonists needs be "period".
> I've access in my personal library to six recipes in non redacted and
> redacted forms which arguably fit the bill.  The earliest on the list is
> Roman, Savillum (Cato).  The list then proceeds to French and Italian with
> Sambocade, Torta Bianca and Sienese Tart and culminates in English recipes
> from Elinor Fettiplace and Joan Cromwell which take us to the 16th century?
> and on to 1664  (yes slightly out of period) respectively.
>
> For purposes of the competition we have used the classic "Cheesecake"
> entries in Joy of Cooking as an archetype.   Cheesecake, per "The Joy of
> Cooking", is thus egg-based with CHEESE, plus sugar or honey and some sort
> of flavoring and occasionally flour and milk or cream.  Regards the CHEESE;
> baker's cheese, cottage cheese, cream cheese, ricotta are all apparently
> used in typical modern recipes.
>
> Hopefully this will help to dispel the misconception that "period" food
> isn't tasty by giving people exposure to something in period that is not to
> foreign to their mundane palates.  Does anyone wish to provide recipes for
> possible consideration by the protagonists?  Referenced non redacted recipes
> accompanied by redacted versions are preferred.  It is my hope that the
> protagonists will  redact the recipes they use themselves.  Thus it is also
> my hope that the redacted version supplied will be used as a reference
> point/example version.
>
> Daniel Raoul