[Sca-cooks] Funges with sugar?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

The first feast i helped cook at, the Head Cook was using a bunch of 
those cookbooks we all snear at now, but which were all that was 
available in the 70s - of course this was 4-1/2 years ago. And the 
recipe included sugar. It was one of those books with the pretty art 
on the cover - from Duc du Bery, i think, and maybe published by a 
museum?

I thought it was wacky, since i was already an aficionado of this 
list, and i knew better. The next year when i cooked them without 
sugar, and had some of the same helpers in the kitchen, i nearly had 
to bodily assault the guy making the mushrooms to prevent him for 
adding sugar.

Anahita

>Hm, I've always used a bit of honey in mine, but can't figure out which
>source I started using that called for that.
>Christianna
>
>  > Funges has sugar in it? When did that happen? Sure isn't in Forme of Cury.
>
>Hm... what does it say in Pleyn Delit? Is there some suggestion that it
>might have a) had a roux thickened sauce and b) that the spices might have
>been 'sweet spices'?
>
>A quick look under 'funges' on the web includes the exact redaction they
>are using:
>http://www.bitwise.net/~ken-bill/medrcp10.htm
>
>If SCAdian cooks put up junk and people use their redactions, whose fault
>is that?
>
>-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa,