[Sca-cooks] "Joke" Food

[Elise Fleming]

(Too many recipients on first try.  Here is the post again.)

Greetings!  Ivan Day, noted British food historian, has put a new post 
on his blog site (http://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com/) which 
addresses a variety of "joke" food from the 1400s on.  Each item comes 
with a wonderful photo and details about the food being recreated.  The 
first item is from "Liber cure cocorum" (1420 or so) and is a dish of 
bacon and eggs made from jelly - although he uses a recipe from 1769.

Other "joke food" photos include marzipan fruit, sugar paste flowers, a 
disappearing table (not food but food-related), and a variety of photos 
of texts and engravings.  There's enough in this blog to keep some 
enterprising subtlety maker challenged for years!

Alys K.
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Elise Fleming
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