[Sca-cooks] Strawberry Recipes?

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On 11 May 01,, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> There's a period recipe somewhere (too early in a.m. for me to remember
> which cookbook <g>) that's a strawberry tart...I've never made it, by
> I've seen it done.  IIRC, there's a pie crust, and the fresh straberries
> are cut in half (?), and placed in the crust, and you pour red wine (or
> a wine-based syrup?) over them and bake them....
> sorry I'm not more help, here <g>
> --Maire

I've made that one for a May Day feast many years ago.  It's a wine-
based syrup, and it was immensely popular.  The redaction (I think)
was in _Sallets, Humbles, and Shrewsbury Cakes_.  The original
was in one of the late-period English sources.  I can find it tonight.


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