[Sca-cooks] Queens Tea
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Mon Jan 28 20:10:08 PST 2013
If period is even a concern here (the event seems ambivalent), a frequent
post-dinner refreshment starting at least about the time of Hughes Capet was
the wafer (oublie), basically a small waffle (and probably a secularized
form of the communion wafer). A somewhat lighter version of this was called
a "cloud" (nebula/nieulle in old French). These were typically served with
hypocras after a meal. Flans also came along quite early, though they
evolved from a flatcake to a cream in a pastry shell, possibly passing through a
pizza-like phase en route.
There seems to be some disagreement about whether a "maistre" was a large
oublie or a collection of them, but that word appears quite a bit too.
Fruit of course was a dessert from the Romans on and never really fell out
of favor (even Charlemagne had a piece of it after his meal).
Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com
Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy:
Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France
In a message dated 1/28/2013 7:51:08 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
lilinah at earthlink.net writes:
The 16th century has recipes for cookie-like items, usually called small
cakes. There are other things that can be made in individual molds - press
in some pie crust dough, fill with chosen filling, bake, cool, serve.
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