SC - Candied Citrus Peel
Library Staff
betpulib at ptd.net
Tue Feb 17 15:25:20 PST 1998
At 12:46 PM 16/02/98 -0800, Rebecca Tants wrote:
>The only completely non-period item (we'll skip lemonade for the
moment)
>was the Almond Cookies. They were AWESOME, but came from a nice
Italian
>cookbook I have and can't be dated to prior then the turn of the
century.
>They were, however, inexpensive, yummy and a good solution as I got
>frantic. (Recipe for those is 11oz almonds, 1c plus 3T sugar, 1/2 t
>vanilla, 4 egg whites, pinch of salt. Beat egg whites and salt to
stiff
>peaks, process almonds and sugar together. Fold almonds/sugar and
vanilla
>into the egg whites, bake at 300 degrees for 30 minutes on greased
cookie
>sheet. YUMYUMYUMYUMYUM)
Rebecca,
I am curious -- which desserts from Apicius were you trying that you
had so many problems with during your testing?
In case you are interested (or for future reference), Mistress
Rosemounde of Mercia and I co-feastcratted a Roman feast last year
which had three desserts which came out very well. One was simply
cottage cheese and honey with poppy seeds (looks weird, tastes great,
easy to make) one was simply pears poached in red wine and honey and
allowed to soak overnight (there weren't ANY of these left, also easy
to make) and the more complicated one was one of the Patinas -- the
peach one. We played with the recipe a little bit until it came out
like a peach custard -- very yummy.
I thought your feast sounded really yummy. I'm glad you kept with the
traditional Roman courses -- we did that too and it goes over really
well.
THLady Morgan MacBride
Shire of Glaedenfeld
Meridies
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