[Sca-cooks] Favorite Food Gift Ideas

[Terry Decker]

I like panforte.  It keeps well wrapped in a cloth and doesn't need 
refrigeration.  Of course, most of the ones I've given haven't lasted the 
night.  The recipe is in the Florilegium.

Bear

>I will ceertainly check the florilegium for articles, but I am also
> interested in people's recent ideas of nmostly non-perishable food items
> used as gifts.  Also slow to perish items.  I am building some gift ideas
> for a gift closet for my wife and me to dole out for apprciation gifts, 
> and
> am stuck for NEW ideas.  I have the following ideas that I use over and
> again:
>
> powder forte, poder douce, hypocras spice, various mustard sauces, and 
> whole
> spices such as long pepper, ceylon cinnamon and saffron (for those who 
> have
> never used them especially)
>
> What other very simple food-related gift ideas has anyone recently used 
> that
> connects to our food hobby.  Food, generosity, appreciation and gifting to
> me are all intertwined, so I live with them that way.
>
> niccolo difrancesco