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Sambocade

his is a form of cheese-curd tart flavoured with elderflowers. The recipe first appears in the book of the Master Cooks of King Richard II, (1390). It is called sambocade after the Latin word for elderflower, sambucus. It may be one of the earliest cheesecakes of Britain, although we know that cheesecakes have

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