[Sca-cooks] pastry

[jemoore at firstam.com]

I am going to enter crispels in an A&S this weekend.  In the forme of cury
it just says pastry dough and I'm not finding a pastry dough recipe in the
book.  I'm thinking possibly a puff dough?

Any ideas?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:37 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] pastry


> If you find one of these, I want to know.
>
> The earliest medieval European cookbook is 13th Century, so a 12th Century
> recipe is a little hard to find.  There may be something in Anthimus or
> Apicius, but those predate the 12th Century by 500 to 600 years and really
> didn't get passed around until the 15th Century.  If documentation is a
> requirement, you may need to use a 14th Century pastry and extrapolate its
> probable use in the 12th Century.
>
> Also, there are a number of different types of pastries.  What kind of
> application are you trying to do?
>
> Bear
>
> > From: jemoore at firstam.com
> >
> > Looking for a 12th century pastry recipe and its documentation.
> >
> > Can anyone help???
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