Candy Flowers Old Elizabethan Recipes

CANDIED FLOWERS

Steps:

• Beat egg whites until frothy. Add a couple of drops of vodka to help the flowers dry quicker.
• Using fresh picked flowers, paint each flower individually with beaten egg white using the artist's paintbrush.
• When thoroughly coated, sprinkle with fine sugar and place on the wire rack to dry. Flowers are completely dry when stiff and brittle to the touch.
• They should be free of moisture. This could take 12 to 36 hours, depending on humidity. To hasten drying, you may place the candied flowers in an oven with a pilot light overnight, or in an oven set at 150 degrees to 200 degrees F with the door ajar for a few hours.
• Store the dried, candied flowers in airtight containers until ready to use. They will keep for as long as a year.

ELIZABETHAN ENGLISH HERB AND FLOWER SALAD WITH HONEY DRESSING

Steps:

• Toss together the watercress, lamb's lettuce, spring onions, sorrel, sage, mint and rosemary leaves.
• Mix together the olive oil, lemon juice and honey - season with salt and pepper. Toss the salad with the dressing.
• Place the salad in an attractive serving dish. Scatter the edible flowers over the top of the salad.

FLOWERS & HERBS SALAD, ELIZABETHAN ERA

Steps:

• 1. Gather the ingredients.. and prep them as written above. Toss together the watercress,lambs lettuce, spring onions,sorrel,sage and mint leaves.
• 2. MIx together the olive oil,lemon juice and honey- Season with salt and pepper Toss the salad with the dressing.
• 3. Place the salad in an attractive dish. Scatter the ediable flowers over the top of the salad. Enjoy...it will be almost to beautiful to eat!
• 4. Note: Foto from Karen Burro Booth. Recipe from site below. WWW.getmecooking.com/recipe Hugs....Queen Nancy...3/8/13

ELIZABETHAN FOOD AND DRINK VARIED ACCORDING TO STATUS AND WEALTH. IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ERA MEAT WAS A SIGN OF WEALTH. BUT AS THE POPULATION ROSE, THIS WAS SUPPORTED BY IMPROVING AGRICULTURAL TECHNIQU

Steps:

• 1. Violet Cakes To make Violet Cakes Take them clipped clean from the whites and their weight in fine Sugar, wet your Sugar in fair water, and boil it to a Candy height, then put in your Violets, and stir them well together, with a few drops of a Limon, then pour them upon a wet Pye-Plate, or on a slicked paper, and cut them in what form you please; do not let them boil, for that will spoil the colour: Thus you may do with any Herb or Flour, or with any Orange or Limon Pill, and, if you like it, put in a little Musk or Ambergreece Violet Cakes Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe The above Old dessert recipe for Violet Cakes is written in totally different way to today's recipe books! There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of the text Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified! Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified! Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide! It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of cooking Some of the language might be referred to as 'Olde English' The art of cooking and the recipe was passed verbally from one generation to the next The first printed book ever to be published in English was in 1474! Most Elizabethan women were unable to read! The idea of a Recipe Book was an entirely new concept The first Recipe Books to be printed in England which included many old Elizabethan and Medieval recipes were called: 1545 - 'A Propre new booke of Cokery' 1588 - 'The Good Huswifes Handmaid for Cookerie in her kitchen' 1596 - 'The Good Hyswife's Jewell' 1610 'Mrs. Sarah Longe her Receipt Booke'
• 2. The above Old recipe is taken from the book by Hannah Woolley (1622-1675) printed at the White Lion in Duck-Lane, near West-Smithfield, London in 1672 and entitled:

CANDY FLOWERS OLD ELIZABETHAN RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. To Candy Flowers the best way Takes Roses, Violets, Cowslips, or Gilly-Flours, and pick them from the white bottoms, then have boiled to a Candy height Sugar, and put in so many Flours as the Sugar will receive, and continually stir them with the back of a Spoon, and when you see the Sugar harden on the sides of the Skillet, and on the Spoon, take them off the Fire, and keep them with stirring in the warm Skillet, till you see them part, and the Sugar as it were sifted upon them, then put them upon a paper while they are warm and rub them gently with your hands; till all the Lumps be broken, then put them into a Cullender, and sift them as clean as may be, then pour them upon a clean Cloth, and shake them up and down till there be hardly any Sugar hanging about them; then if you would have them look as though they were new gathered, have some help, and open them with your fingers before they be quite cold, and if any Sugar hang about them, you may wipe it off with a fine Cloth; to candy Rosemary Flours, or Archangel, you must pull out the string that stands up in the middle of the Blossom, and take them which are not at all faded, and they will look as though they were new gathered, without opening