SC - Candied Citrus Peel

[Jeremy Fletcher]

There are also some recipes in The English Huswife, 1615.  Slightly post-period 
but similar in most respects to Good Huswife's Iewell.  The one I have to hand 
(which I haven't tried):

To make suckets.  Take curds, the parings of lemons, of oranges or pomecitrons, 
or indeed any half ripe green fruit, and boil them till they be tender, in sweet 
wort; then make a syrup in this sort: take three pound of sugar, and the whites 
of four eggs, and a gallon of water; then swinge and beat the water and the eggs 
together, and then put in your sugar, and set it on the fire, and let it have an 
easy fire, and so let it boil six or seven walms, and then strain it through a 
cloth, and let it seethe again till it fall from the spoon, and then put it into 
the rinds of fruits.

    Wulfric of Creigull

Elizabeth wrote: 
>> What is the earliest recipe that anyone knows of for candied lemon  or
>> orange peel?  The earliest I know of is in Hugh Platt's _Delightes for
>> Ladies_, 1609, and it is not very clear.  I ask because we have got lemons
>> and tangerines coming out of our ears--I've made two years' supply of
>> marmelade (OOP version) and haven't made a noticable dent in the supply.

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