SC - to candy violets

[Cathy Harding]

As I recall you use gum arabic and very fine (but not powdered sugar).
Mistress Fjorlief has made me lots of them.

Maeve

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> [mailto:owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Laura C. Minnick
> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 8:11 PM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: SC - Saxon Violets
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> Hi everybody!
>
> Ok- they aren't Saxon (the joke was too cute not to say) but they are
> all over in the walkway, etc, and as I LOOOVE violets (though not as
> much as I love my sweetie ;-) I'd like to put them by. And yes, Stefan,
> I already looked in the Florilegium, and found a couple of non-specifc
> flower-candying things that listed violets. I seemed to remember that
> one could layer them up in sugar, not really candying the flowers but
> giving the sugar a nice scent and taste. I also thought that they could
> be candied much like citrus peels. Violets are my totem and since
> they're there... anyone have any ideas?
>
> 'Lainie
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