SC - Period potato recipe
Mary Morman
memorman at oldcolo.com
Tue May 4 11:25:24 PDT 1999
Brighid,
I was told about this recipe many years ago and have been looking for it
ever since. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Elaina
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
> I was browsing through one of my Spanish cookbooks, looking for
> something else entirely, when I came across a recipe for a citron-potato
> conserve. In view of past discussions, I thought it might interest some
> of the gentles here.
>
> Source: "Libro del Arte de Cozina" (Spanish, 1599); translation mine
>
> CIDRA Y PATATA -- Citron and Potato
>
> The citron must be mature, make it into four quarters, and remove the
> sourness, and peel it, and then grate it, and cast it in to cook, and
> having brought it to boil two or three times, set it aside, and let it cool,
> and then wash it in tepid water, and cast it in a hair sieve, and wash it in
> cold waters, until it is not bitter, and leave it until it drains very well. The
> potatoes must be large, and washed, and cast them in to cook, and
> when they are tender, peel them, and pass them through a clarifying
> hair sieve, and then weigh it, and combine it with the citron, and mix it
> all well, and have in a boiler clarified sugar, and instantly, [it being]
> thick, cast it in, and set it to cook on a fire of coals, which should be
> mild, and let it cook, and stir it constantly with one hand, so that it
> doesn't stick, and when the bottom of the boiler becomes white, it is
> cooked: cast in a little orange-blossom water, and a little musk, and set
> it aside, and beat it a while until it cools, and then cast it in the box,
> and have it five or six days in the sun, and then keep it. The quantity
> must be, to two pounds of sugar, one and a quarter of potato, and one
> of citron.
>
> Brighid
>
>
> Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
> Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
> mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> harper at idt.net
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