[Sca-cooks] I Got My Portuguese Convent Sweets Books - Who-hoo!

[Robert Downie]

And only 20 Euros for shipping...grumble, grumble...

Mesa, Doces e Amores no Sec XVII (the table, sweets and passions in the 
17th C)
Docaria Conventual do Alentejo as Receitas e o Seu Enquadramento 
Historico (convent sweets of Alentejo, the recipes and their history)
Docaria Conventual do Norte Historia e Alquimia da Farinha (convent 
sweets of the north, history and alchemy of flour)

Of course, now it's going to take me a while to go through them.  
Unfortunately, in quickly skimming the contents, the recipes are not 
dated, so there could be modern ones along with the originals.  One of 
the introductory chapters mentioned the rise of convent sweets starting 
in the second half of the 16th C, and truly blossoming by the 17th C.  
and that many of the sweets were created specifically for the nobility, 
as these religious orders were also responsible for entertaining Kings.

I'll keep notes as I go along, and eventually I hope to have some 
usefull information to share.  There's a fair amount of info on monastic 
life in General there too, by the looks of it.

Faerisa