[Sca-cooks] Period raisin bread?

[Johnna Holloway]

Closest I found in medievalcookery.com is this cake made with bread  
and raisins:

This is an excerpt from Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard
(Germany, 15th century - Giano Balestriere, trans.)
The original source can be found at Mark S. Harris' Florilegium

If you want to make a good cake out of eggs. Take eggs, as many as you  
want, beat them well and cut into it five lot [a unit of weight  
differing widely by region] of fine white bread. Put raisins into the  
batter. Heat lard in a pan, so that it is enough, and pour the egg  
into that and let it bake inside and out. With that lay it on a board  
and  chop some spices onto it, cut it into slices and serve it.

Wiltu machen gut kuchenn vonn eyerrn. So nym eyer, wie vil du wilt,  
vnd zu slach die wol vnd schneid semel funf lot dar vnter vnd thue dar  
ein weinperr vnd schmalcz in ein pfannen, des genug sej, vnd geuß die  
eyer dar ein vnd laß es packenn ynnenn vnd aussenn. Do mit slach es  
auff ein panck vnd hack dar vnter gut wurcz vnd schneid es zu  
scheubenn vnd richt es an.
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Searched under bread and raisins in EEBO-TCP and came up with things  
like grated bread and raisins in a number of medical recipes and a few  
others like this one but no "raisin breads".

To make Fritters.

To make Fritters another way, take Flower, milke, Barme, grated Bread,  
smal Raisins, Cinamon, Suger, Cloues, Mace, Pepper, Saffron, and Salt;  
stirre all these together very wel with a strong spoone, or smal  
Ladle; then let it stand more then a quarter of an houre that it may  
rise, then beate it in againe, and thus let it rise & be beate in,  
twice or thrice at least then take it and bake them in sweete and  
strong seame, as hath beene before shewed, and when they are serued vp  
to the table, see you strow vpon them good store of Suger, Cynamon,  
and Ginger.

from The English house-vvife. 1631 edition

Johnnae

On Oct 21, 2010, at 6:52 PM, David Friedman wrote:

> The chief cook for a local event likes my sourdough raisin bread,  
> and wants me to do some for the event. Does anyone here know of any  
> period references to raisin bread? Pictures?
> -- 
> David/Cariadoc