[Sca-cooks] Writings on Honey Butter

[Sonia Murphy]

I thought I'd come across a 17th century reference to honey butter
recently, but it turns out they're both spread on the bread, not mixed
together beforehand. Protects against the plague, apparently.

Bottom right of
http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/FOLGERCM1~6~6~1201688~197254:Receipt-book-of-Margaret-Baker--man;JSESSIONID=1018316f-6709-4c00-9702-1648c26fd460?qvq=q%3A122013%3Bsort%3Acall_number%2Cauthor%2Ccd_title%2Cimprint%3Blc%3AFOLGERCM1~6~6&sort=call_number%2Cauthor%2Ccd_title%2Cimprint&mi=0&trs=1&cic=FOLGERCM1~6~6

Thora/Sonia

On 19 Sep 2016 12:20, "Johnna Holloway" <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:

> A couple of my writings on honey butter appear here:
>
> Honey Butter: A Sweet Conundrum Or An Exercise in Buttering Up?
>
> by THL Johnnae llyn Lewis, CE. The Fret Knot. Winter-Spring 2014.
>
> http://www.sca-altavia.org/docs/2014-01_Fret_Knot_Winter-Spring.pdf
>
> Holloway, Johnna. [Johnnae llyn Lewis.] “Honey Butter and Butter
> Sculptures. The Gauntlet. January 2008.
>
> There's even a note in one of the Stefan's butter files which reads
>
> "We have the honey butter references/discussion/argument/whatever and
>  My article on the topic can still be found here as a [PDF]
> The Gauntlet Jan-Mar 2007 The Gauntlet. Page 9. January-March, 2008.
> Honey Butter and Butter Sculptures. THL Johnnae llyn Lewis
>
> I am sure that the updated article in the latest version is sitting
> someplace in a file for Stefan to add to the Florilegium too."
> My summary letter which is in the Florilegium concludes
> "I think that is everything we have mentioned in the past decade.
>
> So the lady looking for the butter recipes can probably find what we
> know and acquire the butter recipes for herself by
> 1. reading the file in the Florilegium
> 2. doing a search under butter or spiced butter in the SCA Cooks files
> 3. doing a search under butter in the recipe search section of
> medievalcookery.com
>
> If she has access to EEBO, she can of course spend several weeks
> searching through the nearly 3000 butter references that pop up in
> English books when doing a full text keyword search on the term. The
> Biblical references alone fill pages."
> And of course after that letter, I traced the SCA history back to the West
> Kingdom and 1969.
>
> Johnnae
>
> Sent from my iPad
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