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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> Depends on how much fruit and what type of cake I suppose in part.
> They show up titled as great cakes. Then there are the questions as  
> to:
> Mixed fruits? Rising agents being eggs, ale barm, yeast, or baking  
> powders/sodas???
>
> MWBoC has this one-- pounds of currants and eggs and ale barm.

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.

I can't find one in Gervase Markham's The English Housewife, which  
surprises me. Will check Hugh Plat later.

Adamantius






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