SC - Christmas Dinner and Gifts/Fig Brandy

[Daniel Phelps]

Was written:


>I have checked out _Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book_, and almost had heart
>failure until I read the text extra carefully and discovered the
>cherries-in-brandy recipe was a 18th century addition. I like Fettiplace,
>but it's a source you have to be careful with.


Mia culpa.  On a different note  I seem to remember reading a
autobiographical account of one of the Catholic martyrs who escaped the
Tower in Elizabeth's reign.  In that account he wrote of being given a
restorative drink which was flavored as in cordial upon his escape.  I don't
recall if he said what it was flavored with.  I do recall reading that a
sealed flask of flavored alcohol was recovered from the Vasa.   The vessel
is only slightly post period.  The author of the article, in Scientific
American if memory serves me correctly, said that, for research purposes, he
got to taste it.  It was anise flavored like arak.  While not fruit flavored
it is in a similar product.  I will quest for other examples if I can find
them.  Have you checked Martha Washington's Book of Cookery?  Ms. Hess was
pretty careful in her research notes as to what came from when, perhaps
there is something there.  I will look when I find my copy.
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>Daniel Raoul le Vascon de Navarre' called many things by many people but by
>the English, Leadenpenny.
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