Monthly Archive: September 2010

Elizabethan / Scotch Petticoat Tails (Petits Gateaux Tailes)

September 24, 2010

Scotch Petticoat Tails (Petits Gateaux Tailes)

I know I know…this is suppose to be about Middle Eastern Redactions not English. Every one and their dog does English…but I LOVE short bread. Really good buttery melt in your mouth short bread...

Ingredients and Spices / Sugar

September 23, 2010

Sugar

Sugar was not, historically, plentiful or abundant until the late 1500’s. What we would consider an every day stable was used sparingly for medicinal used (improve digestion and increase appetite) to only found on...

Elizabethan / Figee or Figgy (Fig Sauce)

September 11, 2010

Figee or Figgy

It’s fig season here. Yielding small delectable sweet little treats fresh from the tree. I had so many I couldn’t eat them all and wanted to preserve the few I had left. I couldn’t...