If you want to make a May cake
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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If you want to make a May cake. Take ten eggs and beat them well. Add parsley and stir it in, then take a mortar and place it on the coals and put into it a spoonful of lard and let it get hot. Pour in the egg and let it bake at a gentle heat, then turn it out onto a bowl in one piece. Do not oversalt it.

Wiltu machen ein meyschen kuchenn. So nym auff zehen eyer vnd zuslach sie wol vnd nym darzu peterlein vnd rurr es vndereinander vnd nym einen morserr vnd secz auff ein kolenn vnd thue dar ein einen löffel vol schmalcz vnd laß es heyß werdenn vnd geuß die eyerr darein vnd laß es kul pachen vnd thu es also gancz auff ein schussel. Versalcz es nit.

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176 To make a good May cake. Take a pound of raisins, a pound of currants, five small portions of May butter, a handful of hyssop, a handful of ground ivy, some sage, about ten leaves, two times as much mint, a handful of costmary, approximately fifteen eggs and a half pound of sugar; the herbs finely chopped, baked for two hours. The butter must be stirred into the herbs. For the crust, two eggs, which are prepared as for a tart. []

176 To make a good May cake. Take a pound of raisins, a pound of currants, five small portions of May butter, a handful of hyssop, a handful of ground ivy, some sage, about ten leaves, two times as much mint, a handful of costmary, approximately fifteen eggs and a half pound of sugar; the herbs finely chopped, baked for two hours. The butter must be stirred into the herbs. For the crust, two eggs, which are prepared as for a tart. []

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Materials
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eggs
parsley
seafood
lard

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Procedure
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
  <http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?kuchb:176>. Accessed on September 13, 2024, 12:46 pm.