Well, just just passed Oakapple Day, and a friend, whose birthday is the
same day, suggested we have an Oakapple Day Feast next May 29--- some
kind of Restoration food fest: any suggestions to start with?

phbp

Patrick Porter wrote:

> Well, just just passed Oakapple Day, and a friend, whose birthday is the
> same day, suggested we have an Oakapple Day Feast next May 29--- some
> kind of Restoration food fest: any suggestions to start with?
>
> phbp
>
Beer and Plum Duff (known as 'Baby's Bum' because of the mark left by
the string tying it up!) are the traditional foods of the day, served
every year to the Chelsea Pensioners.

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On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:50:46 -0700, (Patrick Porter)
wrote:

>Well, just just passed Oakapple Day, and a friend, whose birthday is the
>same day, suggested we have an Oakapple Day Feast next May 29--- some
>kind of Restoration food fest: any suggestions to start with?

Here are some links to 17th c. English cookbooks:
http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/grewe2.htm
http://realbeer.com/spencer/Digby-recipes/
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/cgi...%2Fwoolley.sgm


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Thanks for this information! I can see what we have to do, now---

phbp