a recipe for my BotherInLaw.
On another message board I read someone was wondering where the idea that G-d's angels envy mankind comes from. I think it's because we have cheese.
I've mentioned before how much pleasure I get from feeding non-SCA people medival recipes.
Baked Mushrooms, adapted from Scully’s Early French Cookery, pp 271
Ingredients
3/4-1 pound fresh mushrooms whatever kind you like best
1/2 pound of brie (or other soft cheese)
3 Tbl olive oil (plus some for pan)
1/2 tesp salt
2 tesp ginger
1 tesp cinnamon
1/2 tesp fresh ground pepper
1/4 tesp ground cloves (I often omit this, or use a tiny pinch)
1 tesp sugar (I often omit this too)
4-6 Tbl grated parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 400F. Gently oil bottom of clean baking dish (a 8x8 square or a pie pan does fine). Clean mushrooms and cut into bite size pieces if not already small. Evenly distribute mushrooms in pan.
If you wish, peel rind from Brie (I don’t bother). In a food processor, or in a bowl with a fork, mash up the brie with the oil, salt, and spices. Once it appears to be an ugly brown lump, drop spoonfuls of cheese mix evenly in the pan. Scrape up all the cheese mix from the bowl, you want every bit on the mushrooms. Cover mushrooms with tin foil or lid and place in hot oven for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven. Remove foil. Sprinkle with grated parmesan and return pan to oven uncovered for 10 minutes.
Eat while still hot.
You can also bake the mushroom-cheese mix in a pre-baked pie shell. I prefer to use more cheese in a 1:1 weight ratio with the mushrooms. I also sometimes forget and mix the grated parmesan into the brie and spices and have to use more for sprinkling. That’s good too.