[Sca-cooks] Obscene medieval pastries

[Terry Decker]

It will be a pastry originating as "mulloi", a cake shaped like female 
genitalia made of wheat flour, honey and sesame seeds for the Feast of 
Demeter in Antiquity.   From the little I know of them, these cakes were 
likely shaped in a mold before baking.

Crème frite (crema fritta in Italy) is a starch fortified custard rolled in 
bread crumbs and fried.  While I don't have a history of the dish to hand, 
it is likely that this (or a variant thereof) is being used as a filling.

Bear

<<< The most direct translation of this is:

"Let it be made shaped like [female genitals] stuffed with fried cream, if
there is any; and if no cream is found, take fine cheese and put in nice
pieces,  and some sugar."

(I have to admit this makes me think of a taco.)  >>>

I don’t see tacos. Maybe our visions of “tacos” differs. Thin, corn 
tortillas are rather different from puffy flour ones or other flatbread.

But what is “it”?  A bread?, a pastry? Is this something that sits flat, but 
you have to look at it edge on to see the illusion? like two overlapping 
layers of pastry dough?
Sounds like the beginning of an adult themed illusion food feast. :-) But 
not enough info to work from. I don’t have any copy of Taillevent.

And what would be meant by “fried cream”? A whipped cream that is a bit 
dried out?

Stefan