[Sca-cooks] Gyngerbrede.

[Ruth Frey]

>     Druighad at aol.com wrote:
>
> >From having worked as both a baker and pastry chef, let me tell y'all that we
> have no nerves left in our hands. It's very possible that the Elizabethens
> also kneaded when the mixture was very hot, but used ice water baths ( to
> dunk hands in) to keep their hands very cold, and not burn. It's a technique
> that anyone who does pulled or blown sugar uses religiously.

	And the techniques involved might have been taken as
a "given," as in so many Period recipes, and simply not been
mentioned in the text . . .

		-- Ruth