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Subtlety- Spanish Peacock

Posted by: Alysten on: March 26, 2012

I am trying to expand beyond “sugar” with subtleties. Too many people do not understand the non-edible versions of the term.  It’s been a while since I’ve done something structural and edible, that was not sugar. For our Mudthaw event, I created a Spanish Peacock bread subtlety.  The bread is a basic Manchet recipe that [...]

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Manchetts

Posted by: Alysten on: April 20, 2009

This is a basic 16th century white bread recipe. This documentation discusses the period ingredients, units of measurements, and the modern recipe transformation. Documentation and recipes: Elizabethan Manchettes

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  • opusanglicanum: there is a c15th version, and the latest example (the one I used) was from richard dolby cook's dictionary of 1832, quoted in elizabeht ayrtons englis
  • Alysten: I've done several galentines that require that level of boning. But I haven't done one of those types of subtleties yet. I am hoping to attempt one w
  • opusanglicanum: havae you tried the seventeenth century thing where you bone out a whole chicken (that bits tricky as you have to bone it complete from the inside, in

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