[Sca-cooks] Special diet friendly sweets

[Patricia Dunham]

Boy that "fruit compote for passover" sounded like "Haroset" to me. 
which you can google for recipes.  hmm, most of what turns up appears 
to include walnuts or almonds, etc., but you could just leave those 
out, esp. if you got into some of the more exotic variations that add 
more types of fruit.

chimene

>My mother used to make what she calls "fruit compote" every year for
>passover.  She would throw in whatever dried fruit she had around (prunes,
>apricots, apples, raisins, etc.) and add some cinnamon sticks, some sort of
>sweetener (honey or sugar) and other spices and that was that.  Of course my
>mother is a "dump and stir" cook and there really isn't a "recipe".
>
>-Shoshanna
>
>On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Amy Cooper <amy.s.cooper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  This weekend is our Shire's quarterly feast night. One dish I'm going
>>  to do is Torta Bolognese - to me, the dish almost screams spring. But,
>>  we've got some shirefolk (and both dear friends of mine) with some
>>  interesting dietary restrictions. One is vegan - her digestion
>>  literally can't handle meat/dairy/eggs of any sort. Honey is ok with
>>  her. The other one is on an anti-inflammatory diet, so she can't have
>>  dairy, and is to avoid wheat as much as possible. She also is allergic
>>  to peanuts, and therefore avoids nuts. These friends are not making
>>  any sort of demands on me - I just enjoy the challenge of cooking
>>  something they can have and might like.
>>
>>  I'm thinking of some sort of sweet for my second dish - which should
>>  meet the above-mentioned friends' dietary requirements, since the
>>  torta will not be edible by either of them. I had been thinking of
>>  something like Breney or a similar fruit compote, served with probably
>>  fried wonton skins (not period, I know, but I really really don't work
>>  well with doughs of any sort). I don't think I can find or afford all
>>  the ingredients, though (most of the recipes I've found have pine nuts
>>  and/or quince). Are there some simpler fruit compote recipes out
>>  there, with more modernly-common ingredients?
>>
>>  Many Thanks!
>>
>>  Ilsebet
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