[Sca-cooks] Period-appropriate cookies and cookie-like substances....
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sun May 22 23:15:44 PDT 2005
Maire asked about cookies:
> One of the heads of our household has requested that I
> bring "cookies," (with us both understanding that this includes
> anything
> remotely similar to such things as are modernly called "cookies,"
> including, but not limited to, small cakes, wafres, etc.).
> So...cookies I'll bring. They need to be from a period source, and
> they
> need to be transportable (I live 5 hours away from the group hosting
> the
> event).
cookies-msg (105K) 6/20/04 Period cookies. Recipes.
mamouls-msg (20K) 1/ 9/02 A Middle Eastern date/nut/dried fruit
filled
cookie embossed with patterns.
Rosquillas-msg (15K) 6/20/01 Spanish pastry of biscotti-like rings.
These are in the FOOD-SWEETS section of the Florilegium.
> I'd originally thought of, maybe, Shrewsbury cakes, but those
> have been done in the past, and I also thought of maybe making
> something
> lovely like wafres and snow or angels' food (making the wafres in
> advance and the snow or angels' food on site), but I'm afraid the
> wafres
> wouldn't stand the journey very well.
Wafers will work. The secret is packing them so they don't rattle
around too much. Stack them flat in a container about their size. There
are period recipes and suggestions on safely packing them in this file:
wafers-msg (85K) 11/13/04 Period savory and sweet wafers.
Recipes.
This is in the FOOD-BREADS section.
> I could always do shortbread
> (easy, familiar, travels well), but my recipes are perioid, and I'd
> like
> to stick with documentable dishes....
shortbread-msg (33K) 3/29/05 Period shortbread. Recipes and
directions.
In the FOOD-SWEETS section.
Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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