[Sca-cooks] Re: Documentation for Presentation
Johnna Holloway
johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Mon Jun 6 05:34:26 PDT 2005
Plat also talks about moulding gingerbread-- from Delightes for Ladies
22. To make Ginger-bread
Take three stale Manchets, and grate them: dry them, and sift them
thorow a fine sieve: then adde unto them one ounce of Ginger being
beaten, and as much Cinamon, one ounce of Liquorice and Anniseeds beeing
beaten together, and searced, halfe a pound of sugar; then boil all
these together in a posnet, with a quart of claret wine, till they come
to a stiff paste with often stirring of it; and when it is stiffe, mould
it on a table, and so drive it thin, and put it in your moulds: dust
your moulds with Cinamon, Ginger, and Liquorice, being mixed together in
fine powder. This is your Ginger-bread used at the Court, and in all
Gentlemens houses at festival times. It is otherwise called dry Leach.
23. To make dry Ginger-bread
Take half a pound of Almonds, and as much grated cake, and a pound of
fine sugar, and the yolks of two new laid egges, the juice of a lemmon,
and two grains of musk: beat all these together til they come to a
paste: then print it with your moulds: and so dry it upon papers in an
oven, after your bread is drawn.
The chapter "The Pastry Yard' in All the King's Cooks by Brears
has some material in it about this sort of thing.
There's a St. Paul's Cathedral covered in gold for one thing.
Johnnae
>Nichola reported that Nancy Kiel wrote:
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>>Out of curiosity, is there evidence for houses being made
>>in such detail, perhaps as subtleties? I've heard of castles
>>as subtleties of course, but did they do interior details?
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>The Andalusian _Manuscrito Anonimo_ of the 13th century has a recipe for
>"cast sugar" items which is boiled sugar poured into molds. I can't lay my
>hands on the Charles Perry edition, but the prior one (my translation) ends
>with "Then decorate it [this refers to the molded item] with gilt...(snip)
>If you want to make a tree or a figure of a castle, cut it piece by piece.
>Then decorate it room by room (section by section) and stick it together
>with mastic until you complete the figure you want, if God wills." The
>title in that version was "Figures dressed in sugar".
>
>Alys Katharine
>
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