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Dessert plans for the weekend
Oct. 4th, 2004 06:27 pmFor Friday and Saturday I am bringing dessert for the encampment. From Sabrina Welserin's cookbook (c 1553)
For Saturday:
188 To make a date tart
Cut up the dates and take out the pits, cook them in sweet wine, let them boil a little, lay them attractively on a pastry shell and sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top of it, and lay the dates in a circle. And again sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top. And make a cover over it and pour on it some of the broth in which the dates were cooked, and let it bake.
For a sweet wine... I'm thinking maybe a sweet red? Or maybe a white? I may have to get both and sample them with the dates to see which tastes better. The dates I have aren't the re-hydrated kind so they be very similar to what was originally used.
For Friday I'm thinking some kind of cookies, maybe this recipe for Lebkuchen or Shrewsbury cakes from my Dining on the Edge cookbook.
151 To bake good Lebkuchen
Take first a pound of sugar, a quart of clear honey, not quite a third quart of flour, take two and a half ounces of cinnamon, one and a half ounces of cloves, two ounces of cardamom. Cut the other spices as small as possible, the cinnamon sticks are ground as coarsely as possible. Also put ginger therein and put the sugar into the honey, let it cook together, put the flour in a trough, pour the cardamom into it first, afterwards the ginger and the other spices
The interesting thing about this recipe is that it is very similar to a recipe I have for German honey cookies, except that this old one doesn't have eggs and baking soda.
For Saturday:
188 To make a date tart
Cut up the dates and take out the pits, cook them in sweet wine, let them boil a little, lay them attractively on a pastry shell and sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top of it, and lay the dates in a circle. And again sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top. And make a cover over it and pour on it some of the broth in which the dates were cooked, and let it bake.
For a sweet wine... I'm thinking maybe a sweet red? Or maybe a white? I may have to get both and sample them with the dates to see which tastes better. The dates I have aren't the re-hydrated kind so they be very similar to what was originally used.
For Friday I'm thinking some kind of cookies, maybe this recipe for Lebkuchen or Shrewsbury cakes from my Dining on the Edge cookbook.
151 To bake good Lebkuchen
Take first a pound of sugar, a quart of clear honey, not quite a third quart of flour, take two and a half ounces of cinnamon, one and a half ounces of cloves, two ounces of cardamom. Cut the other spices as small as possible, the cinnamon sticks are ground as coarsely as possible. Also put ginger therein and put the sugar into the honey, let it cook together, put the flour in a trough, pour the cardamom into it first, afterwards the ginger and the other spices
The interesting thing about this recipe is that it is very similar to a recipe I have for German honey cookies, except that this old one doesn't have eggs and baking soda.