SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #1157--Cranberry fudge

[Decker, Terry D.]

Renata wrote:
>I know Alys Katharine has seen a picture of it, but where did the 
>original recipe come from?

I found it in the modern book _The Elixirs of Nostradamus_, 
"Nostradamus' Original Recipes For Elixirs, Scented Water, Beauty 
Potions and Sweetmeats", edited by Knut Boeser, published by Moyer 
Bell, 1996.  This is a translation from a German book.  Nostradamus's 
book was published in French in 1552 and in German in 1572.  I'd have 
to read the Foreword to know which edition Boeser used.  The ISBN 
number is 1-55921-155-5.  The person who gifted the book to me said it 
was pretty hard to come by in the US.  (Devra?  Amanda?)

The book's sweetmeat section includes recipes for preserving a variety 
of fruits as well as lemon peel and walnuts, clarifying sugar, making a 
transparent jelly from bitter cherries as well as a quince jelly, 
making a candied sugar, marzipan, and penide sugar.  He also has 
preserved limes.  OOOH!  I was told, when I did lime peels, that limes 
were OOP.  This would seem to indicate that they weren't... 

Alys Katharine
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