[Sca-cooks] Chyryse

[Anne duBosc]

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Just that I already had the powder forte made up, and am temporarily out of poudre douce.
 Daniel Myers <doc at medievalcookery.com> wrote:
Sounds good. One question though: Any reason for using powder fort
instead of powder douce? The latter would have sweetened the dish up a
bit.


On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 06:43 PM, Anne duBosc wrote:

>> From "Forme of Cury" p. 33,
>
> Take Almand, unblanched, grynde hem, draw hem up with gode broth. do
> (th)to thridde part of chyryse. (th) ston. take out and grynde hem
> smal, make a layo of gode bread a powdo and salt and do (th)to. colo
> it with sandr so that it may be stondying, and flourish it with aneys
> and with cheweryes, and strew (th)uppon and sue it forth.
>
> 1 cup unblanched almonds
>
> 1/2 cup cherries (I used water pack canned cherries)
>
> 6 oz. chicken broth
>
> 4 dinner rolls
>
> 1 tsp. powder forte
>
> 1/2 tsp. salt
>
> anise seed
>
> Grind almonds and cherries. Add chicken broth and grind some more.
> Bring to a rolling boil, reduce heat, and simmer for about 30min.
> Cool. Process again. Cut dinner rolls into cubes and place in the
> bottom of a casserole. Sprinkle with powder forte and salt. Cover
> with cherry mush. Sprinkle on anise seed. Bake at 350 for 25 min.
>
> Notes: Next time I'll make almond milk with the almonds, and strain
> out the nuts.
>
> I also want to try this as a sweet dish. Pegge says in his
> introduction that "powder" could be taken to mean sugar in some > dishes.
>
> My mother loved it, ate nearly the entire dish by herself. I found it
> pleasant enough, but think it could use the sugar. Daddy doesn't like
> cherries, so he wouldn't try it. BTW, I cooked this yesterday before
> my doctor told me not to cook for anyone other than myself for a
> month. That's gonna put a crimp in my testing recipes timetable...
>
>
>
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> Lady Anne du Bosc
> Known as Mordonna The Cook
> Atenveldt, Atenveldt
> mundanely Pat Griffin
> Phoenix, AZ
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mundanely Pat Griffin
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