A&S
Fruitcake?
So, I’ve decided to take a step away from the Swetnam research for a few minutes and do some baking. Well… kinda… I don’t have time this week for baking, so I’ll have to take care of this next week, but I can do the prep now.
I was alerted to a good looking period fruitcake recipe by Medieval Cooking, and kinda want to try it. Of course I then went to backtrack it and found that the original was translated by a Charles Potter… of course I can’t find that translation yet, but I’ll keep trying. It seems he’s in the SCA so I should be able to find him eventually.
The original text is called Libro Novo and is in Italian. I speak absolutely no Italian so a good translation is a must. What intrigues me the most is that there are four bread recipes in it, so I will need to find a full copy eventually. That being said. Lets take a look at the recipe that was posted at Medieval Cooking .