History Cookbook: Pokerounce
About this recipe
Healthiness : (156 votes)
Comments: This is quite easy. The honey is warmed not boiled.
Preparation Time: 5
Cooking Time: 5
Number of servings: 4
Serving suggestions: We liked it with a little cream or even ice cream.
This is a vegetarian recipe
Preparation Time: 5
Cooking Time: 5
Number of servings: 4
Serving suggestions: We liked it with a little cream or even ice cream.
This is a vegetarian recipe
A medieval sweetmeat to be eaten at the end of a meal. Sugar was an expensive luxury and honey sweetened foods were popular. The range of imported spices used would still make this an expensive dish. Galingale is an aromatic spice, a little like ginger, but worth using if you can get it.
This is not unlike modern honey dishes which you might know, such as baklava.
Ingredients
- 170g honey
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp galingale (add more ginger if you cannot get this)
- a pinch ground black pepper (this gives heat but can't be tasted)
- a handful of pinenuts
- 4 thick slices of brown bread
Equipment
- Weighing scales
- Teaspoon
- Saucepan
- Four plates
Making and cooking it

- Put the honey in a saucepan
- Add the spices and warm the mixture. Do not overheat or it will caramelise
- Toast the bread lightly, cut into squares and arrange on 4 plates
- Spoon over the spiced honey
- Arrange the pine-nuts on top (If you put the nuts on first they are washed off by the honey)

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Name: Sophie | 20th May 2019 |
Good you do not need ground ginger |
Name: Mr Jack | 9th December 2013 |
this was very helpful |
Name: Jasmine | 14th February 2013 |
cool |
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