SC - Re: Candied Fruit Peel

[Elise Fleming]

Elizabeth of Dendermonde (hi!) wrote:

>There is a recipe for this in Hugh Platt's _Delights for Ladies_ from
>around 1600 ("orange pills", if I remember correctly) which is in
>Cariadoc's collection v. 1.  Alys Katherine of the Middle Kingdom has 
>done a lot of work with late period confectionary and could probably 
>give you more sources.

My recipe and modern version is from Dawson's 1597/98 cookery book.  It 
is lengthy but if you take your time (5-8 days!), it produces a 
deliciously moist peel.  If you e-mail me privately I will send it.  
Tried to send it to Berengaria when she requested peel but her 
addresses bounced.  Julleran's recipe is similar.  The recipe works 
nicely for lemon peel (use less time or the peels fall apart) and the 
non-period grapefruit and lime peels.

A good source of peels (if you can't eat all the oranges yourself) is 
to get the discarded peels from grocery stores that make their own 
juice.  The stores here give the peels away if you get there before 
they've tossed them and while some of the peel is damaged from the 
machine there is certainly enough to cut up nicely.

Alys Katharine (alysk at ix.netcom.com)


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