SC - Duello by Cheese Cake; High Noon in Trimaris, Spoons at the Ready
Susan Fox-Davis
selene at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 10 08:35:47 PST 2001
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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
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