[Sca-cooks] Re: rice with currants, was Lemonwhyt?

[Barbara Benson]

Greetings,

Those sound fantastic (except for the guts ones)! I am unfamiliar with that
source, what exactly is a puff paste? Is it similar to a puff pastry?

If so, and if one was making these for a feast could one substitute any
commercial products instead of trying to make mass quantities of puff
pastry? (Not knowing what it is I am thinking phyllo or crescent rolls)

Truly these are exciting, I would love to make some! Is this book online
anywhere or is it purchasable?

Glad Tidings,
Serena da Riva

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy M. Renfrow" <cindy at thousandeggs.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:35 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: rice with currants, was Lemonwhyt?


> Never say never.
>
> Robert May's "The Accomplisht Cook" (Prospect Books facsimile ed., 2000,
p.
> 268-9.)
>
> "A made Dish of Rice in Puff Paste.
>    Boil your rice in fair water very tender, scum it, and being boil'd put
> it in a dish, then put to it butter, sugar, nutmeg, salt, rose-water, and
> the yolks of six or eight eggs, put it in a dish, of puff paste, close it
> up and bake it, being baked, ice it, and caste on red and white biskets,
> and scraping sugar.
>    Sometimes for a change you may add boil'd currans and beaten cinamon,
> and leave out nutmeg.
>
> Otherways of Almond-Paste, and boiled Rice.
>    Mix all together with some cream, rose-water, sugar, cinamon, yolks of
> eggs, salt, some boil'd currans, and butter; close it up and bake it in
> puff-paste, ice it, and cast on red and white biskets and scrape on sugar
>
> Otherways a Made Dish of Rice and Paste.
>   Wash the rice clean, and boil it in cream till it be somewhat thick,
then
> put it out into a dish, and put to it some sugar, butter, six or eight
> yolks of eggs, beaten cinamon, slic't dates, currans, rose-water, and
salt,
> mix all together, and bake it in puff paste or short paste, being baked
ice
> it, and cast biskets on it."
>



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