[Sca-cooks] pasties - was winter projects

[David Friedman]

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>period-esque rather than practically prefectly period. but they are 
>adventurous eaters, so that is good!

I'm not sure I understand that. Are you saying that people in your 
area are so used to period food that they see not quite period food 
as an adventure?

On the subject of pickles, I have a soused eggplant recipe from 
al-Warraq I've recently tried. But it might be a bit messy for your 
purposes, pickled eggplant being less solid than pickled cucumber.

For a sweet, have you considered gingerbrede--the 14th-15th c. sort 
that has a texture like fudge? Good fingerfood, although likely to 
leave the fingers slightly sticky. Keeps well.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
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