SC - Cornflowers

[Meliora & Drake]

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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