> --- Alison Place <alison_place_at_...> wrote:
>
> > I had always thought that 'vaunting' was a
> > great word for this desirable social ability.
> > Watch out for entry no. 3
> > ("A kind of fruit pie"), if there are Eurmali
> > anywhere near...
>
> Now I've stopped giggling, I will hold on to that
> image for future reference. You have been warned! :)
But of course what I actually did was go and look up the reference, and then chase it back to the original document. "The Good Huswifes Handmaide for the Kitchen", written in the 1590s. Yes, I now have a recipe for a Vaunt, and it's sufficiently complicated to be worthy of the name.
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/thomas.gloning/ghhk/handmaide.htm and search for "vaunt".
Beef marrow and dried fruit with spices, wrapped in a lattice of strips of fried egg-yolk (these are the "vaunts", it seems), all baked in the oven. Sounds beautifully messy!
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