Honey Custard was Re: [Sca-cooks] Camp Food)

[Nancy Kiel]

I'm afraid you've lost me.  Why wouldn't you have to stir it if you're not
baking it?  Also, what is meant by "steam baking"?  I'm envisioning a bowl
of water in the oven, but if you don't have an oven..... If really pressed,
you could heat a spot on your hearth, put your baking pan on the spot, cover
it with another baking pan upside down and put hot coals on the top, which
will give you an oven of sorts.



Nancy Kiel
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Never tease a weasel!
This is very good advice.
For the weasel will not like it
And teasing isn't nice.





>From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: Honey Custard was Re: [Sca-cooks] Camp Food)
>Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:53:56 -0600 (CST)
>
>
>There is a recipe for something called Soft Custard like this in the
>custard section of _The New Settlement Cookbook_ (my basics bible).
>Basically, mix the eggs and milk and sweetener and cook on very low heat
>until it's set. This recipe calls for stirring it, but if you were cooking
>it in the hot ashes, for instance, you wouldn't have to stir it.
>
>Margaret, who is home sick and thus thinking pudding thoughts anyway
>
> > It is filtered into an earthenware pot and cooked over a low fire until
>it
> > sets.  Basicly, a heavy sauce pan on low heat.  The recipe is roughly
> > equivalent to custard cream (creme a l'Anglaise) using honey rather than
> > sugar.
> >
> > Bear
> >
> > >This all give me an idea of steam baking honey custard
> > >from Apicius rather than oven baking in a water bath.
> > > Does anyone have instant access to the text and is
> > >oven baking described in it?  Say I was a Roman woman
> > >with a brazier or hearth but no oven, how would I cook
> > >a custard?
> > >
> > >Bonne
>
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