[Artemisia] Period Sweets

[ravenmacleod at comcast.net]

Cool, though the process seems like it's kind of tricky, maybe I'll have you show me the ropes first. 

The recipe I have calls for double boiling them in the oven...

--
Raven MacLeod 
Esquire 

En fides abunde virtus, en virtus abunde fides. 

If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. --Michelangelo 


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From: rcfaevans at comcast.net 

> I had looked into this before, but I rechecked the Web to verify: 
> 
> Custards date back to at least the Middle Ages. 
> Flans go back at least to Rome. 
> Boiled puddings are Period, but the were mostly non-sweet (Pease, Meat, etc.) 
> 
> 
> Ryryd 
> 
> ps: Raven, I have a wonderful custard pot, if you would like to use it. Anna 
> got it for me in France some years ago. VERY heavy, pure copper. You MUST use 
> a gas range. Electric won't work. 
> 
> 
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> From: ravenmacleod at comcast.net 
> 
> > Are custards period? I have a custard recipe that I'm just dieing to try. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Raven MacLeod 
> > Esquire 
> > 
> > En fides abunde virtus, en virtus abunde fides. 
> > 
> > If people knew how hard I worked to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so 
> > wonderful after all. --Michelangelo 
> > 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> > From: Georgia Foster 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 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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