[Sca-cooks] Re: Seeking Kid friendly period recipes

[David Friedman]

>In a message dated 9/18/2004 1:42:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>ddfr at daviddfriedman.com writes:
>
><<This sounds a little like losyns, but not much. Any one know what the
>original is?
>
>>1 pound of dried egg noodles
>>1 tablespoon of oil
>>Large pinch of salt
>>2 cups of grated cheddar cheese
>>1 stick of butter>>
>
>Actually, with the exception of adding the salt and the oil to the boiling
>process, it's very close to Macrows.  That particular recipe tells you how to
>make the dough, has you boil it (in broth, I believe), and then layer it with
>cheese and butter.  It never tells you to bake it to melt it all 
>together, so I
>find that particular step in the instructions (putting it into an oven to bake
>briefly *if you want to*) rather telling.  It sounds like someone assumed
>that, because they are cooking pasta, one MUST, of course, use salt and oil in
>the water as is the normal process today, but otherwise followed a 
>period recipe
>rather closely.

Macrows:

Take and make a thin foil of dowh, and kerve it on peces, and cast 
hem on boiling water and seeth it wele. Take chese and grate it and 
butter cast bynethen and above as losyns. and serve forth.

It doesn't specify how to make the dough, and I would be inclined to 
assume just flour and water, not egg, given other recipes from about 
then. It's boiled in water, not broth, at least in that version.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com