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Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Sat Nov 8 04:10:50 PST 1997
Lady Clare,
I don't have a copy of Hess yet, so if you could post these recipes I would
be exceedingly grateful. However, they do not specifically mention
cornflowers. I must be going mad, I am sure I read them specifically
mentioned somewhere !!
Lady Meliora.
At 03:06 PM 7/11/97 -0900, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>My Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats has
>three or four recipes for pickling and preserving flowers. The names of
>the flowers given are: "cloue gillyflowers, cowslips burrage &
>marrigoulds." There is also a recipe called "Another way for keeping of
>flowers which is accounted better then ye first" which doesn't specify
>any particular type of flowers. Don't know if these are what you may be
>looking for. The recipes in this book aren't redacted, just the recipe
>with comments by the transciptionis, Karen Hess. If you would like them
>let me know and I'll forward them to you.
>Lady Clare
>Canton Inbhir na da Abhann
>
>
>
>Meliora & Drake wrote:
>>
>> Greetings all,
>>
>> All of my cornflowers are currently out in bloom. I remember reading (in
>> Fettiplace I think) a recipe for pickling or preserving the flowers for use
>> in salads in the winter. However, in re-reading Fettiplace I cannot find
>> the reference. I found a recipe for preserving Clove Gilliflowers (Pinks)
>> for the same purpose, but not the cornflowers.
>>
>> Can anyone help with references to using cornflowers in/as food ?? My main
>> interest is early Renaissance but any time in "SCA period" would do.
>>
>> Thanks and regards
>> Meliora
>> meliora at macquarie.matra.com.au
>>
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