[Sca-cooks] Seeking leaves and crust
Susan Fox
selene at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 11 09:26:21 PST 2006
I can't help wondering if "leaf" is neccesarily a literal leaf from a
plant. We say "a leaf of paper" after all. Some kind of baking sheet,
perhaps?
If literal, I would try using grape leaves or maybe big lotus or banana
leaves, available at my local Asian market.
Selene C.
Fairy Tale Designs wrote:
>Maybe grape leaves?
>
> -Muiriath
>Kerri Martinsen <kerrimart at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Banana? Grape? Corn Husk?
>
>Some not period, but might work in the same vein. Bay leaf seems really small....
>
>Vitha
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>From: wildecelery at aol.com
>>Sent: Jan 11, 2006 8:09 AM
>>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>>Subject: [Sca-cooks] Seeking leaves and crust
>>
>>Leaves:
>>
>>have a recipe for libum, a roman cheese-based bread. the original
>>form Apicius says to bake on an oiled leaf. The modern redaction that
>>I started from sugggests bay leaf...any other suggestions for leaf
>>ideas?
>>
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