[Sca-cooks] Rice Flour was Period Flour Query
Johnna Holloway
johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Fri Feb 9 04:06:43 PST 2007
Rice Flour actually shows up in medieval English recipes.
To make floure Rys appears in the Harl. Mss 279 Leche Vyaundez
page 38 in Two fifteenth-century cookery-books :
Harleian MS. 279 (ab 1430), & Harl. MS. 4016 (ab. 1450)
xxij - For to make floure Rys. Take Rys, an lese hem clene; then drow
hem wyl in the Sonne, that they ben drye; than bray hem smal y-now; and
therow a crees bunte syfte hem, and for defaute of a bonte, take a Renge.
Johnnae
Aldyth at aol.com wrote: snipped
> In one of the shortbread discussions it mentions adding rice flour to the
> (see list of flour) for making it crumbly. At the risk of being really dumb,
> did shortbread originally have rice flour in it? I just have a hard time
> visualizing rice paddies in Scotland. :-))Aldyth
>
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