[Artemisia] Period Sweets

[ravenmacleod at comcast.net]

Are custards period? I have a custard recipe that I'm just dieing to try.

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Raven MacLeod 
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-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Georgia Foster <jo_foster81 at hotmail.com> 

> 
> 
> 
> hmn ... 
> 
> Since we began this discussion of sweets … I have been wracking my brain cell to 
> try to figure what to bring. I have time to make some fruit pastes, and the 
> season is just right for doing that. Those I made for the desert auction last 
> March were made from frozen fruit. The resulting paste was too thin, which made 
> them a little tough; more like fruit leather than fruit paste, which is why they 
> were laid one over the other, rolled up and tied … couldn’t find any other way 
> to make them pretty enough to offer. 
> 
> AND 
> 
> I happen to know that Baron Richard, Her Highness' mate, is very fond of 
> custard. 
> 
> And ... I have a pretty good recipe for custard that I made for Otherhill 
> Candlemas last. It was served with smallcakes and (cooked) mixed berry sauce as 
> a sort of build-at-the-table tart. All I have to figure now is … 
> transportation and storage until serving. 
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Malkin 
> Otherhill 
> Jo (Georgia L.) FosterNever knock on Death's door. Ring the doorbell and run ... 
> he hates that. 
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