HELP NEEDED
dCastillo
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I want to have an ancient pastry party, but don't really know any ancient pastries. Does anybody have any recipes to get me started?
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ancient is how far back in time?
very very far back in time.
like when elaine benes ate a $29,000 cake that belonged to King Edward VIII?
totally!
you have recipes??
Halloween 06:
red wine, vampires, 40 versions of Beat Box, ancient pastry.
we're saving Michael Caine and Gremlins thru Roland Space Echo for Christmas.
As for the rest of you, I better wake up and see some
Admonish or admire?
is admonish a good word? I forgot. I thought abolish was bad, but admonish is like a pat on the back or something. maybe it's not a word at all.
time to sleep.
admonish
SYLLABICATION: ad??mon??ish
PRONUNCIATION: d-mnsh
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: ad??mon??ished, ad??mon??ish??ing, ad??mon??ish??es
1. To reprove gently but earnestly. 2. To counsel (another) against something to be avoided; caution. 3. To remind of something forgotten or disregarded, as an obligation or a responsibility.
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Revised Ed. by Harold McGee 2004
page 572
i don't have recipes. but i am thinking you can use a modern recipe for a pastry and use ancient ingredients to make it an ancient pastry. unfortunately my new apartment doesn't have a portal to the past otherwise i'd help you get some of these ingredients. maybe you can find some ancient ingredients on ebay
sidenote, this image came up when i googled "ancient cookie":
haaaaa
yahaddada!
http://recipesource.com/misc/weird/
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcakes.html
I've learned that I ought not try out new 3 syllable words at this stage in my life, and pre-medieval pastries are hard to come by.
our new studio is down the hall from these guys.
i should try to cop some fresh gear from them to rock while eating ancient pastries and cuttin' doubles of "greensleeves."
Also, you should definitely check out the Harold McGee book I quoted above. I doesn't have many recipies but it has tons of historical and scientific information about the history and origins of foods we eat.
I was going to scoff at these replicas, until I saw the endorsement from good
old Ewart Oakeshott - a man whose dagger expertise I truly admonish!