A Bard's Blog

https://rarecooking.com/2020/12/01/instructiones-to-make-cakes/   This week is cookie or biscuit. These kinds of “cakes” are what we would call cookies now. I intended to do biscotti and caught a cold, so did something easier. As a trained archivist, I love the blog’s name I got the recipe from! I had to salvage these because somehow I got too much flour.  Essentially, they are a nice shortbread, I think the flour proportions are off.  They turned out delicious, the eighth teaspoon of clove gives it a nice flavor without being overpowering.

 Crypto Jewish, Passover Rollillos  Dealing with the state of the world with a friendly baking challenge. First week in March theme was any holiday. From the Cookbook “A Drizzle of Honey” It uses Inquisition records to recreate recipes and given the Spring holidays coming up, it seemed meaningful to try this one. I used white pepper for this recipe. The only honey I had on hand was a spiced honey, so I used that.  Crypto Jews would often be generations away from someone  who had practiced their faith legally so recipes may not be strict for that various cultural traditions of Jewish communities today. Easter European Jews have a strict tradition about baking times because any kind of matzah isn’t supposed to rise. So from mix to oven is only allowed at eighteen minutes.  I explored a bit of ancient matzah as well for research and most of that would have been griddled, over a fire. Result for this was a flatbread consistency, I would probably experiment with thin...