[Sca-cooks] Help please...

[Susan Fox-Davis]

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>> >From Helwyse's translation and web site:
>>
>> LVIII Marvelous and good walnut bread
>> If you want to make a bread of walnuts.
>>
>> Take walnuts and peel and grind them, and take good herbs, a little 
>> grated
>> suet, sweet and strong spices and a little sugar.  Put these in a mortar
>> with the walnuts and make a paste.  Then take wheat flour and make a 
>> sheet
>> in the way (that one makes) lasagna, large and wide and thin.  Put this
>> (nut) paste within and knead all this together in the same way that one
>> makes bread.  Take the dough, when it has become soft like a cake, 
>> and put
>> it to cook in the oven, and when it is cooked pull it out and let it 
>> cool.
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I dunno guys, my take on it is that with careful selection of strong 
sweet spices, this could be the "period baklava" we've been looking for.  

Too bad there's no way we can rationalize honey as an herb.  <grin>

Selene