[Sca-cooks] Obscene medieval pastries

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Well, similar. I doubt there's an actual lineage. The classical erotic  
pastries were related to religious beliefs; the medieval examples seem to have  
just been people having frank fun.
 
By the way, despite Le Grand's objection, Mercier supposedly writes  
somewhere of people making obscenely shaped pastries in their own time (the  
eighteenth century). It's not like people have ever needed much inspiration in  
this domain.
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

The  shifting phases of French bread history
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-shifting-phases-of-french-bread.htm
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In a message dated 11/12/2014 9:02:41 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
t.d.decker at att.net writes:

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.