SC - Re: Candied Fruit Peel

[Louise Sugar]

Alys I would be very interested in this recipie.....I love using candied
orange peel for all kinds of things and we sure do eat a lot of oranges :D

Dragonfyr
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From: Elise Fleming <alysk at ix.netcom.com>
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 11:04 PM
Subject: SC - Re: Candied Fruit Peel


>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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