[Sca-cooks] honey butter

[Nancy]

Also, one reason we expect bread and a spread to be on the table is because when we go to restaurants, those items are on our table so we can nosh while waiting for our food.  With period feasts, you sit down and the food is served, so there's no waiting period.


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Period Islamic recipes combining honey and butter are not
uncommon--pouring on honey and melted butter is the final step in my two
favorite frying pan pastries. But that's using honey and butter as
ingredients in a dish, not serving honey and butter mixed together as a
spread.

Lots of modern American recipes use flour and water-for instance in
making bread. But if someone made a paste of flour and water and put it
on the table for spreading on things, he would not be accurately
reproducing modern American cuisine.


On 10/3/16 3:31 PM, Susan Lord wrote:
> Recently there was a complaint that honey butter was served in a banquet and the critics maintained it was not period. The 13th Century Anon, Al Andalus has a recipe combining honey and butter. Below is a copy of the Perry translation into English:
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> 205. Another, Called Mudhahhaba (Gilded)
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> Take a ratl of honey and pour into a pot, and put with it a half of clarified butter and as much saffron, pepper and cinnamon as needed. Put the pot on a fire of coals (embers), and when it boils and boils over, take eggs and break in a plate and throw on them almonds, walnuts and pistachios, and stir them with the eggs, and throw into the pot. Stir until mixed and done. And when it thickens, take from the fire and overturn the pot on its face, and serve.
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