[Sca-cooks] Dredge?
Sandra Kisner
sjk3 at cornell.edu
Thu Aug 7 11:53:13 PDT 2008
>>In doing research I came across the following recipe in The Good
>>Huswife's Handmaid:
>>http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/ghhk/
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>Actually, I think it is exactly as simple as it looks. The mixture used is
>called the dredge, in this case the sugar, cinnamon and ginger, in verb
>form it means to coat something in a dry mixture (as in to dredge in flour).
>
>These recipes make fruit pies, the sugar cinnamon and ginger will combine
>with the juices from the fruit during baking to produce a flavorful syrup
>that will (hopefully) thicken and set from the pectin in the fruit as the
>pie cools. Modern recipes often add a starch to the dredge to improve the
>thickening action but if you have good, properly ripened fruit, it really
>should not be an issue.
>
>I'd suggest a slight modification to the recipe instructions by coating
>the fruit in the dredge and then placing in the crust. It will be better
>distributed and should give a much better result.
>
>Dragon
But the recipe doesn't call for just coating the fruit, it asks you to
"fill vp your coffins," which is, I suspect, the confusing part. Unless
you have very small pieces very closely packed, you're going to end up with
a *lot* of "dredge" in your coffin.
Sandra
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