[Sca-cooks] Pancakes and Fruitcakes was Happy Shrove/Fat Tuesday

[Elaine Koogler]

Yes, there is one...I think it's called "Another Fine Cake".  I've made it
several times, but it seems to me that it's more of a spice cake than a
fruit cake, though it does have currants in it.

Kiri

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <
adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:

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> I'm pretty sure Digby, at least, has a similar one, with currants, eggs,
> butter, spices, sack, ale barm... and I think a small amount of almond meal
> mixed in.
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> I can't find one in Gervase Markham's The English Housewife, which
> surprises me. Will check Hugh Plat later.
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> Adamantius
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