[Sca-cooks] Breakfast Bread Muffin Pastry

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Hiya from Anne-Marie

Butter actually keeps pretty well without refrigeration for a bit. It
tends to melt before it goes rancid.

Also, those "butter crock" gizmos that keep it under water help keep it
cooler, and it seems to work well here, in the PacNW (granted we don't
get uberhot here)

Jam or jelly also works as a tasty spread and no refrigeration required.

If you want period treats (and who doesn't? ;)), I recommend Ruzzige
cake (think foccacia with herbs and cheese), hardboiled eggs (in the
shell, which, if unbroken, means refrigeration isn't required, at least
in the short term), dried fruits, nuts, fresh fruit, etc. I also find
that medieval fruit/nut tarts like Krapfen, fish day rissoles, etc work
great for folks who need something sweet in the morning (not me, but to
each his/her own ;)). You can do a nice spread of small bite size
tartlets filled with different period sweet stuff, in addition to the
wide array of cookie like objects from the Elizabethan corpus
(marchpanes, shewsbury cakes, French bisket, etc). Digby's cakes do a
nice cakey/fruitcakey thing as well.

Tons of options!!
Hope this is helpful...
--Anne-Marie, who hopes that these recipes are still in the florilegium?
They used to be....:)