Church Cakes

In the year 1478 cakes were made for a feast at St Ewen’s Church, Bristol. The accounts show the ingredients:

• A bushel of meal for cakes,
• Item for saffron for the same cakes,
• Item for milk and cream,
• Item for eggs to the same.

We are not given the recipe for these particular cakes but a recipe of about 1500 uses the same ingredients. Saffron at this time was used all over England in many dishes and saffron cak