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This tarte made an appearance at the dayboard of our local spring A&S event, and the recipe shared with the populace afterwards... very yummy!

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Tart in Ymbre Day--Ember Day Tart--Forme of Cury

Tart in ymbre day. Take and perboile oynouns & erbis & presse out pe
water & hewe hem smale. Take grene chese or brede & bray it in a morter, and
temper it vp with ayren. Do perto butter, saffroun & Salt & raisons
courans, Y a litel sugur with powdour douce & bake it in a trap, & serue it
forth.

Paraphrased:
3 medium onions sliced thin and chopped
1 bunch parsley, chopped fine-not in food processor, it will liquefy)
A few sprigs fresh sage, basil, thyme, chopped fine
9 eggs, beaten,
1/2 cup almond milk
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese or 1/2 cup bread crumbs (optional)
pinch saffron, ground in fingers and mixed with 2 tablespoons hot water
for color
pinch salt
1/4 cup raisins or currants (raisons courauns are actually raisins of
Corinth-not currants, but they taste good too)
Powder Douce- a mixture of 1/2 T sugar, and 1/2 t cinnamon, mace, &
cloves)

Sauté the onions and herbs in 1 T butter or oil, remove liquid
Add to a mixture of the 9 eggs beaten with 1/2 cup almond milk
Add saffron, salt, raisins. If using bread crumbs, beat them in now. Pour
in pie crust.
Add cheese on top if desired
Strew the Pouder Douce over top

Bake in 350 degree oven for 1/2-3/4 hour until knife inserted in center
comes out clean

Ooooh, no... I'll have to look it up. Thank you!

So this is my Feast story.

It was last weekend at Encampment at the Castle in Three Towers, and I was serving one of Giles FitzAllen's feasts. (not that I was SUPPOSE to... *grumbles about the autocrat being a jerk and not letting her sit and eat even though she was the main help in creating the feast*)

Setting aside the fact that it was an AWESOME Russian feast (cause I barely had any) it was also filled with GREAT fun.

So I was serving three tables and two of them decided to get into a polite food fight with two OTHER tables on the OPPOSITE side of the room, in the middle of the feast. biggrin Between removes I played messenger.

It was great because my friend Prudence had shanghaied me into it, and at one point we had a five versed long message for the other table. And it went as follows.

Me: "We are going to 'A Salt' you" *sprinkle salt on opponent's shoulder* so you better DUCK" *hands a piece of roast duck to the opponent.

Prudence: "You will be skinned" *hands opponent a bit of skin from whatever meat we had that night*

: "Leaf off this course" *hands opponent a leaf from the salad*

Jen: "And don't wine about it" *hands opponent a cup of wine*

XD It was beautiful. BUT not as beautiful as the reply. The two guys that we were throwing food at, took two of us each and sat us on their knees, then looked at the OTHER table with big grins on their faces. Then on a napkin they sent a piece of bread with butter on it, and a piece of duck with the message.
"Thanks for the threesome."

IT WAS GLORIOUS!
..... Needless to say i think the last table won.... But it was fun great fun.

Ahhhhh good time good times.

Oh... and Giles FitzAllen's feasts are NUMMY!!!

It's from an independent press. I'll put a link to it here in a second. The other books are nice too, but Small Cakes has per-iod recipies.