A fools dish

[alysten]

I am investigating sweet dishes for Bhakail's Yule feast.  I will have to prepare foods from a common larder (part of the feast challenge from the autocrat) that are fitting for "traditional English" feast.  I am going out on a limb and say that eggs, cream, sugar and fruit should be part of the common larder.  These are common enough ingredients and the building blocks for so many other things. [Poll #1455074][Poll #1455074]

Comments

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

Gooseberry fool!! ;-)

[woodwindy.livejournal.com]

As far as I understand it, "the larder" is supposed to be what would actually be available to an English cook in December. I think that's going to limit fruit, unfortunately -- but you'll have apples for sure, quince paste likewise, and I think maybe medlars if they're findable. In terms of dried stuff: figs, dates, raisins, prunes. Not sure what else...

Ooh, and while I was poking around looking for backup to my random thoughts, I found this neat site: The Thorngrove Table.

ETA: I would be surprised if pumpkin shows up. Squashes of some sort, probably, but not pumpkin proper. Shakespeare's "pumpion" is problematic -- see this article on linguistic confusion.