[Sca-cooks] Caneles...another website

[emma at protege.sca.org]

To add to the mystery for these treats...when searching for Cannelés under
the spelling of Canelés....

http://www.crt.cr-aquitaine.fr/crtagb/gastrono.asp

This website is from the Aquitaine Trouist Board... They offer the date of
1519 and references the nuns again.  I'm curious as to where they got the
date?  It couldn't have been arbitrary.

emma


>> If you read French it seems some people have already been discussing
>> the question at length
>> http://www.sansfin.com/additions.php?p=600&c=1
>> The short of it is that it seems that the lost nun recipe is a legend
>> and the recipe can more likely be traced from the 18th century
>> However it does sounds awfully appetizing :)
>
> Here's a rough translation of an interesting bit:
>
> "This interesting news once more raises the problem of the origin of
> canneles.  All was said on this one, but the mystery remains whole.
> The most tenacious legend gives birth to this pretty cake in the
> kitchens of the convent of the Ladies of Annonciade of Bordeaux at the
> end of the 17th century.  What exactly happened?  The recent refitting
> of that convent - in the buildings where in 1995 the regional
> Management of the cultural Affairs settled - was preceded by an
> archaeological excavation campaign.  Among the many usual objects
> exhumed from the ground and dating from the modern period, none
> resembled a cannele mold."
>
> It goes on to note that the cannele is absent from dictionaries, and to
> talk about the possible existence of a similar (but not provably the
> same) confection being made in Bordeaux in the 17th century, the
> similarity of spelling of "canneles" to "canaules" and "canoles" of the
> "ancient regime", and that "canauliers" dropped from the lists of
> occupations in Bordeaux in the 19th century.
>
> On the whole, it says that they don't know where canneles came from and
> they don't mention any dates before the 17th century.
>
> - Doc