[Sca-cooks] Seeking leaves and crust

[Susan Fox]

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?
>>