[Sca-cooks] Re: carrot cake

[Stephanie Ross]

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Brighid ni Chiarain wrote:

The recipe is indeed Spanish, and is from Granado (1599).  The
Spanish name translates as "grated carrot", but I call it "carrot
candy".  It is undoubtedly descended from the recipe for "carrot
paste" in the Anonymous Andalusian cookbook, though the latter
does not contain pine nuts.  I think it's tasty, but it tastes strongly
of honey, and doesn't particularly remind me of carrot cake.  The
carrot pie from Granado, OTOH, is much closer in taste to a
modern carrot cake, but of course the texture is very different.

Since I don't seem to have the recipe in my Cooks List folder, I must assume it may be in the 800+ digests I need to read yet. Of course I want both recipes you mentioned; I'm greedy like that. Do you have them webbed somewhere, or could you find the time to post them for me?

A very appreciative Aislinn


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