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Planning Food for Musicians Part Three The menu as it stands is in pretty good shape. Last time, I looked over Travellers' Fare, and it seems to be in decent shape. So, moving on ... For Saturday breakfast, I'll be buying in tea, coffee, some bread, butter, and so on. The bits to made are: Votte lombarde Malaches Sawgeat maybe scones, because I kind of like making scones The votte lombarde and sawgeat I've already written about. Which leaves ... scones, my version If I do make scones, the basic recipe is: 1 egg, 1 1/2 cups flour (maybe 190 gm), 1/2 cup (60 ml?) of whey, some butter, 1 tsp-ish of baking powder, a little salt. Bake for a while. Honestly, I eyeball most of it. Malaches, from Forme of Cury, Hieatt and Butler edition. Malaches. Take blode of swyne, floure, & larde idysed, salt & mele; do hit togedre. Bake hyt in a trappe wyt whyte gres. The question is what does 'mele' mean in this context? We've already got flour, so meal of what? Oats? Barley? In either case, it's not too far out from my standard black pudding recipe, which uses both oats and barley, and bacon rather than plain lard. (Although I sometimes use cream instead of bacon, but I digress.) I think oatmeal is probably more likely than barley, so modifying my base recipe to use flour rather than barley, would give something like: 100 gm flour 50 gm oats 350 ml water 50 gm dried pig's blood 5 gm salt Bake in a bain-marie at 165C, for 90 minutes. (I omit the trap, since it's extra hassle, and it's easier to portion crustless.) My usual version calls for a little black pepper and coriander, since nothing but salt is a little bland. I might break down and add some, or maybe make a little on the side. Or make two batches, one with and one without. Next up, at least one course of the feast!

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