Willhilda's Mushroom Puffs Pastry Recipe from Handout Pastry: 9 ounces cream cheese 1/2 cup butter 1 1/2 cups flour Mix and chill for one hour Filling: 1/2 pound mushrooms, minced 1 minced large onion 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon thyme 2 Tablespoons flour 1/4 cup sour cream Saute mushrooms and onions until soft. Add the spices and flour and saute for another two minutes. Add the sour cream and cool slightly. Roll out the pastry and cut into 2 inch circles. Place a small amount of mushroom filling on each circle. Fold and crimp the edges together. Place on a baking sheet and brush the puffs with beaten egg. Bake at 400 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes, or until golden brown. Source for Recipe Presented Filling: From The Goodman of Paris Pastry: From The Closet of the Emininently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened Redaction by Viscountess Therica Pembroke of Stonegate Manor, O.L. (The Compleat Anachronist Vol 79) Notes and additional versions Le Menagier de Paris, 1393 CHAMPIGNONS d'une nuit sont les meilleurs, et sont petits et vermeils dedans, clos dessus: et les convient peler, puis laver en eaue chaude et pourboulir; qui en veult mettre en paste, si y mette de l'uille, du frommage et de la pouldre. Mushrooms of one night are the best and they are little and red within and closed at the top; and they must be peeled and then washed in hot water and parboiled and if you wish to put them in a pasty add oil, cheese and spice powder. Item, put them between two dishes on the coals and then add a little salt, cheese and spice powder. Le Ménagier de Paris (a medieval manuscript dated to circa 1393) (in French) Power, Eileen, trans., _The Goodman of Paris (Le Menagier de Paris, abridged), London, 1928. French material, c. 1395. Le Menagier de Paris translated by Janet Hinson (in English) "The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie, Kt. Opened: etc" Pub. posthumously by his son, 1669. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Opened, published (posthumously) in 1669. Florilegium Thread Ideas for finger foods at feasts and events. Florilegium Thread Period mushrooms. recipes. Growing and collecting mushrooms in period and today. Florilegium Thread A light supper feast concentrating on finger foods. Florilegium Thread "A Spring Supper by the Seine" by Her Ladyship Katja Davidova Orlova Khazarina. A French Meal for The Coronation of TRM Morguhn & Meirwen Florilegium Thread Menu and recipes from the Queens Rapier Champion Tourney held by the Shire of Sunder Oak in the Kingdom of Aethelmearc on May 8, 1999. It was cooked by Anna OftderTurm. Redaction from Cariadoc's Miscellany Boke of Gode Cookery Canton of Borderwinds Pasty Workshop Recipe Handout Presented by Muriel nic Cord Informational Handout from that Workshop The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ancient Cookery with your host Alexandre Lerot d'Avigné The Stewpot Recipe Gallery Mushroom Cheese Tarts by Arwen Southernwood The Stewpot Recipe Gallery Mushroom Pasties by Lady Cordelia fitzRobert of York Lady Jehanne de Huguenin: Champignons en paste Gideanus Adamantius' East Kingdom Twelfth Night Feast 1995 A Coronation Feast from Le Menagier de Paris by THL Tatiana Pavlovna Sokolova and the Dragonsspine Cooks Guild Mathilde Eschenbach's Medieval Food Page Feast for Jongeleurs and Japes by Svein Sveinsson Horses' Brawl June 19, 1999 Return to SCA Potluck Recipes Copyright © 2002 Joan Schraith Cole. Updated September 9, 2002