[Sca-cooks] Period-appropriate cookies and cookie-like substances....

[Stefan li Rous]

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          
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