[Sca-cooks] Period-appropriate cookies andcookie-likesubstances....

[Nancy Kiel]

You might try looking at references to Scottish cooking.  I seem to recall Dorothy Hartley talking about griddle cakes, but as she covers a huge time period I don't know if anything would be SCA-period.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Etain1263 at aol.com<mailto:Etain1263 at aol.com> 
  To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org<mailto:sca-cooks at ansteorra.org> 
  Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 1:12 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Period-appropriate cookies andcookie-likesubstances....


  In a message dated 5/22/2005 12:59:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
  scadian at hotmail.com<mailto:scadian at hotmail.com> writes:

  > 
  > The original recipe is from Sir Kenelme Digbie's The Closet Opened
  > printed in 1669 by Digbie's nephew and including his uncle's store of 
  > recipes used at the court of James I.
  > 
  > Excellent Small Cakes
  > 

  This is a wonderful recipe!  I used it routinely at demos as "prizes" for The 
  Food Game, but got a bit bored serving the same thing..so I now make other 
  things as well (Daryoles with Plum Pudding on them went over VERY well!)
    I've also been looking into traditional Welsh cooking.  Every cook in Wales 
  has their own (and best!) verson of "welsh cakes".  If you look at the 
  recipes....these are Digby's fine cakes flattened out and cooked on a griddle!  I've 
  often wondered if I could get away with "baking" them on a griddle at demo's 
  where we do open fire pit cooking.  Does anyone have any documentation for 
  medieval cooking of cakes on a griddle???

  Etain
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