SC - Kissing Comfits or Muscadines.
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Seton1355 at aol.com
Tue Jul 18 06:27:35 PDT 2000
This comes from my Tudor list
Phillipa
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This recipe comes from "Dining with William Shakespeare" by Madge Lorwin.
The author has adapted Tudor recipes to modern measurements. The original
was published in 1621 by John Murrell in "Delightfull daily exercise for
Ladies and Gentlewomen."
3 tablespoons rose water
1 teaspoon gum arabic powder
3 eyedropper drops essence of ambergris
2 eyedropper drops essence of musk
4 cups confectioners sugar, sifted
1 teaspoon powered orris root
2 drops yellow food color (optional)
2 drops blue food color (optional)
Pour rose water into a saucer, add gum arabic and stir until the gum is
dissolved. Add the ambergris and musk, set aside until needed. Sift two
cups of the sugar and the orris root into a bowl, Add the gum arabic
mixture, a tablespoonful at a time and work into the sugar until the paste
is
smooth.
For white pastilles, sprinkle the third cup of sugar on a large plate
and, with your fingers, work the paste into the sugar until it is smooth.
For colored pastilles, divide the white paste into two equal parts, add a
drop of food color to each part. Blend in each of the colors and set one
aside covered (they dry out very quickly) while you work with the other.
Sprinkle half the remanning sugar on a clean plate and work in until
smooth. Pat the paste into a square and cover it with a piece of wax paper.
Roll it out gently to a sheet about 3/8 inch thick. Mark and cut off small
squares, triangles and rectangles with a knife. Sprinkle a cookie sheet
with
the remanning sugar and place the pastilles on it about an inch apart.
When the pastilles have hardened, loosen them gently with a spatula
(they
break easily) and store them in an airtight container. You should be able
to
get about four dozen pastilles from this recipe. They will keep for six to
eight weeks.
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