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White Gingerbread

Posted by: Alysten on: November 11, 2011

To make white Ginger bread. Take Gumma Dragantis* half an once, and steep it in rosewater two daies, then put thereto a pound of sugar beaten and finely serced, and beat them well together, so that it may be wrought like paste, then role it thin into two Cakes, then take a fewe Jordain almonds [...]

Confections: River Wars

Posted by: Alysten on: September 29, 2011

I am looking at recipes for River Wars cooking competition. If I do not end up judging, I want to enter things in the sweets category. I figure one should not just be all sculpture all the time. Candy making is actually kinda cool and tricky. And that, makes it interesting. Recipe #1: Nougat Recipe [...]

Paella- 16th century Spain

Posted by: Alysten on: September 25, 2009

Documentation and recipe for Paella has been completed.  This was a labor of research.



  • 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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