[Sca-cooks] Re: fladen

[Sue Clemenger]

Recipe tease!
--maire, drooling

James Prescott wrote:
> 
> The four 'vladen' recipes in Cocboeck (1593) are all baked in
> presumably shallow dishes or cups, *without* the lower crust,
> and tend towards the sweet end of the spectrum, with a firm
> consistency, and with ingredients:
> 
> 1) milk, eggs; small amounts of flour, butter, salt, sugar
> 
> 2) mashed cooked apples, bread crumbs, egg yolks; small amounts
> of butter, wine, ginger, sugar, cinnamon
> 
> 3) mashed cooked quinces, cream, eggs; small amounts of flour,
> sugar, herbs
> 
> 4) pounded almonds and rice cooked in milk, eggs, cream;
> small amounts of rose water, sugar, butter, sprinkled
> decoration