What to do with fats (was SC - Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras.....)

[Micaylah]

I thought you might enjoy this recipe from Gerard's Herball:

"Eryngium... Sea Holly.

The roots condited or preserued with sugar, as hereafter followeth, are
exceeding good to be giuen vnto ond and aged people that are consumed and
withered with age, and which want naturall moisture:  they are also good
for other sorts of people that haue no delight or appetite to venerie,
nourishing and restoring the aged, and amending the defects of nature in
the younger.

The manner to condite Eryngos.
Refine sugar fit for the purpose, and take a pound of it, the white of an
egge, and a pint of cleere water, boile them together and scum it, then let
it boile vntill it be come to good strong syrrup, and when it is boiled, as
it cooleth, adde thereto a saucer full of Rose-water, a spoone full of
Cinnamon water, and a graine of Muske, which haue been infused together the
night before, and now strained; into which syrrup being more than half
cold, put in your roots to soke and infuse vntill the next day; your roots
being ordered in manner hereafter following:
These your roots being washed and picked, must be boiled in faire water by
the space of foure houres, vntill they be soft, then must they be pilled
cleane, as ye pill parsneps, and the pith must bee drawne out at the end of
the root; and if there be any whose pith cannot be drawne out at the end,
then you must slit them, and so take out the pith:  these you must also
keepe from much handling, that they may be cleane, let them remaine in the
syrrup till the next day, and then set them on the fire in a faire broad
pan vntill they be verie hot, but let them not boile at all:  let them
there remaine ouer the fire an hour or more, remoouing them easily in the
pan from one place to another with a woodden slice.  This done, haue in a
readinesse great cap or royall papers, whereupon you must straw some Sugar,
vpon which lay your roots after that you haue taken them out of the pan.
These papers you must put into a Stoue, or hot house to harden; but if you
haue not such a place, lay them before a good fire.  In this manner if you
condite your roots, there is not any that can prescribe you a better way.
And thus may you condite any other root whatsoeuer, which will not onely
bee exceeding delicate, but very wholesome..."

Regards,

Cindy/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net


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