[Sca-cooks] One of the original fruitcakes has been admitted to ; -)
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Mon Dec 22 22:09:53 PST 2003
Cailte commented:
> my theory on dislike of fruitcake? citron...
>
> now a good irish porter cake... THAT's holiday eating. did a yummy
> one
> this year with guiness, dried apricots and dried figs rather than
> raisings. reeeeeeeeeeeeeal nice!
What is "Irish Porter" cake? I've never heard of it before. It sounds
like a fruitcake though from your description, although with a
different liquor. I didn't think fruitcake required a specific type of
fruit.
I had Stollen last night at a family pot luck. I remembered that we had
discussed it here on this list. I thought it was rather good, although
I couldn't remember whether it was period or not. I took the
Pommedorry/Meatballs from Curye on Inglysch as my contribution. A
number of people like them but since the store didn't have any
currants, I used just raisins and I added Grains of Paradise as well as
the pepper. And next time I'll use more egg yolks as the two yolks
given in the redaction didn't really cover the 1 lb of meatballs. Oh,
and I added some extra saffron to the yolks.
Stefan
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