[Sca-cooks] Gingerbread

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius1 at verizon.net
Sat Dec 13 21:24:31 PST 2008


On Dec 13, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Kingstaste wrote:

> parts out of it.  It calls for waste bread, so obviously it was  
> going to
> change from time to time when being made in the average medieval  
> household.
> I have even had it made with rye crumbs, and that was darned tasty.

Isn't that "wastel bread"? I thought it was...

If so, it's a fine, cakelike white bread eaten by the wealthy. I'm  
wondering if perhaps "wastel" and "gateau" share a common French root...

Adamantius, Bad Cop






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