[Sca-cooks] Marzipan sauce anyone? (was Re: An Evil Thought- Excercise in Intelligence)

[Olwen the Odd]

Perhaps I will pick up some chicken and toss it in the oven before I go.
Good suggestion.  Thanks Generys.  BTW, it was very nice to spend a bit of
time with you at Sapphire.  Too bad the weather was not the best, we could
have spent some time on Sunday together as well.  Are you coming up for
University?
Olwen

>Well, not necessarily - there's a recipe in A Medieval Kitchen, that I
>can't
>remember the original attribution of, but it's chicken sautéed with onions,
>and then sauced with almond milk made with pomegranate juice.  *If* you use
>the bottled pomegranate juice, as opposed to trying to get our own out of a
>fruit, you get a sauce that's a nice lavender color.  (otherwise, yes, it's
>a nasty color.) This sounds somewhat similar... and yummy. So I might
>consider bringing a rotisserie chicken or something as well as the fruit.
>
>Generys
>
> > I'll make up a bit tonight and take it to fighter practice to see what
> > folks
> > think.  I was going to bring some apples and a a pineapple along too.
> > Sounds like it may do well with the apples but not the pineapple.  I
>will
> > certainly be an ugly colour.
> > Olwen
> >
> > >Nope.  The only other thing related to this recipe was a note Scully
> > >made that it was pretty much unique among cookbooks from that time, and
> > >that it would be a sweet and sour sort of sauce.
> > >
> > >
> > >On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 08:27 AM, Sue Clemenger wrote:
> > >
> > >>Yum!
> > >>Does it offer suggestions as to what it would be best served with?
> > >>--maire, marzipan lover
> > >>
> > >>Daniel Myers wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 10:33 PM, Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>You can't really sauce marzipan, it would dissolve.
> > >>>>I bet she would try though.  Maybe run the marzipan through
> > >>>>a Play-Doh Fun Factory [extruder toy for pseudo-clay] maybe?
> > >>>
> > >>>Funny, but I just stumbled across the recipe below earlier this
> > >>>evening.
> > >>>
> > >>>[111.]  Sapore de marzapane.  Piglia quatro dita de marzapane he
> > >>>pistalo cum uno poco de zenzaro bono, poi distempara cum suco de
> > >>>limoni
> > >>>he de granate dolce he forte; he sera bono sapore.
> > >>>
> > >>>(Marzipan Sauce.  Get four fingers of marzipan, grind it up with a
> > >>>little good ginger and distemper it with lemon juice and strong,
>sweet
> > >>>pomegranate juice.  This is a good sauce.)
> > >>>
> > >>>The Neapolitan Recipe Collection: Cuoco Napoletano
> > >>>Terence Scully, (trans.)
> > >>>University of Michigan Press
> > >>>ISBN: 0-472-10972-3
> > >>>
> > >>>- Doc

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