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                          Maids Of Honour Cakes

Recipe By     : Joan Parry Dutton
Serving Size  : 4    Preparation Time :0:00
Categories    : Medieval

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   1       c            Milk
   2       tb           Bread crumbs
   4       oz           Butter
   2       oz           Almonds -- ground
   1       oz           Sugar
   3                    Eggs
   1                    Lemon -- zest of
                        Puff paste

  Boil the milk and  bread crumbs and let them stand for 10 minutes.
  Add the butter, almonds, and sugar. Beat in the eggs, one at a
  time. Put a dessert spoonful of the mixture in the center of the
  pastry of the pastry, and bake until golden brown.

  Recipe FROM: The Good Fare and Cheer of Old England, 1960
  
  Notes:
  
  > It is said that Maids of Honour cakes date from a day in 1525
  > when Henry VIII saw Maids of Honour for one of his six Queens
  > eating a platter of cakes with such joyous relish that he tried
  > one himself, and found it very good. Another tradition says they
  > were named for Queen Elizabeth's Maids of Honour when she lived
  > at Richmond Palace.
  >
  > Several towns in Britain make small, delectable tarts known as
  > Maids of Honour, but none are so rich in flavor and therefore so
  > famous as Richmond Maids of Honour, which come from Richmond, a
  > suburb of London, and are said to have been invented for the
  > court of Henry VIII in the 16th Century.
  >
  > From: The Cooking of the British Isles by Adrian Bailey, 1969
  
  Posted by: Dorothy Hair Davis, Apr 8, 1994
  
 
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