Mary Lorraine Danroth
Menu
MARY LORRAINE DANROTH
|
19. A festive cake was eaten on Twelfth Night, not Christmas Day For the sumptuous banquet that marked Twelfth Night, an enormous cake was traditionally baked, containing dried fruit, flour, honey and spices. Inside the cake were a bean (or coin) and a pea. Slices were offered to guests as they arrived, men and women taking them from the right and left respectively; the lucky man and woman who found the bean and the pea would be King and Queen of the Bean or Pea for the evening and would then lead the singing, dancing and disports. At court, the lucky recipients were often selected in advance. Sadly, no recipe for Twelfth Night cake survives from before 1803.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
My Best FriendsKevin Barhydt
Scott Alan Warner Angela Barra’s Medium Adoptee Rights Australia Adrian Jones NPE and Me The Invisible Threads Anne Heffron Pam Karanova Archives
June 2020
Categories
All
Handy Links
|