[Sca-cooks] Looking for a bread recipe.

[johnna holloway]

As promised--
Mason. Laura and Catherine Brown. Traditional Foods of Britain. An 
Inventory. Totnes, Devon, U.K: Prospect Books, 1999. indicated that 
these are associated with lardy cakes. Another type that goes back to 
the 19th century is the harvest baker's cake which was eaten at a tea.
David, Elisabeth. English Bread and Yeast Cookery. 1977. New York: 
Viking, 1980. contains material on lardy and harvest cakes with recipes.
I know that they are covered in several British regional and traditional 
cookbooks, like the Mabey's and Maggie Black, but I don't have access to 
those at the moment.

Jaine, Tom. Baking Bread at Home. Traditional Recipes from Around the 
World. New York: Rizzoli, 1995 has a picture and contains instructions 
on making a loaf in the shape of a sheaf of wheat.
Bernard Dupaigne in The History of Bread, 1999, also has pictures of 
under a section entitled "The Harvest Bouquets." pp. 74-75.
The World Guide to Bread by Christine Ingram also has a paragraph and 
picture of an English harvest loaf.

I'll try and come up with some more photo's from the web later on and 
more on the folklore associated with the "harvest loaf."

Hope this helps--

Johnnae llyn Lewis



>>> I am looking for a bread recipe. I am told that people would bake a 
>>> special loaf that was ornate to celebrate the harvest. Any help would 
>>> be appreciated.snipped
>>>>>> LOL, sorry I guess this information would help. English people around 
>>> 1100 AD. Gerard