[Sca-cooks] panforte

[Stefan li Rous]

Urtatim said:
<<< Grumble, grumble. Candied citron is only available in Italy and  
too expensive? Hah! Here in the San Francisco Bay Area we can buy  
lovely California-grown citrons and candy them ourselves (yes, i have  
done this). Plus at my favorite bakery, Crixa, the baker candies her  
own citron. What a pile of horse badorties. >>>

Yep, that struck me, too. Even here in central Texas plastic  
containers of candied citron spring up among all the other stacks of  
candied fruits at Yule time. I bought some last year, to see what they  
tasted like, having heard so much about citrons on this list. I wasn't  
impressed with them.  Sort of like chewing on chunks of latex although  
not quite so plasticy a taste. Similar texture.

<<< And haven't we on this list tried to locate an actual SCA-period  
recipe for Panforte or something like it with limited success and  
definitely not from the Crusades? And i am shocked, shocked i tell  
you, by the final sentence. >>>

panforte-msg      (20K)  5/15/10  A medieval Italian, sweetened,  
spiced dessert
                                      bread similar to fruitcake or  
Lebkuchen.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/panforte-msg.html

(I have some more to add to this file. Now that it's come up again,  
I'll see about doing this as soon as I can. Principally a recipe and  
comments by Bear)

fruitcakes-msg    (38K)  6/12/09  Period fruitcakes. Recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/fruitcakes-msg.html

Stefan

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