[Sca-cooks] carrot cake and mascarpone

Claire Clarke angharad at adam.com.au
Sat Nov 20 02:58:36 PST 2010


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Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:36:02 -0600
From: "otsisto" <otsisto at socket.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] carrot cake or the likes
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>Out of curiousity, has anyone come across a recipe that comes close to
>carrot cake?
Not I. 

>And for those that know cheese. When did marscapone come about?

Mascarpone itself is maybe just period, but it is an example of a 'fresh',
'new' or 'ruayne' cheese, and those are in short supply around here (if you
turn your nose up at using cream cheese, which is not period). There were
probably as many varieties of fresh cheese as there were cheesemakers.
They're pretty easy to make. So I think it's reasonable to use mascarpone.
Mind you, it's also kind of dear, and I can get Neufchatel at half the price
so I tend to use that instead.

Angharad




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