[Sca-cooks] Obscene medieval pastries
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Wed Nov 12 21:28:47 PST 2014
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.
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