SC - Potatoes Decorative food Ideas and Candle sticks

[BJ of NZ]

- --- Sue Clemenger <mooncat at in-tch.com> wrote: > These
are both from Fettiplace
> 
> To Butter Potato Roots" (p. 193)
> "Take the roots & boile them in water, till they bee
> verie sort, then
> peele them & slice them, then put some rosewater to
> them & sugar & the
> pill of an orenge, & some of the iuice [sic] of the
> orenge, so let them
> boile a good while, then put some butter to them, &
> when the butter is
> melted serve them.  This way you may bake them, but
> put them unboiled
> into the paste."
> 
> "To Preserve Potatoes" (p. 194)
> "Boile your roots in faire water untill they bee
> somewhat tender then
> pill of the skinne, then make your syrupe, weying to
> every pound of
> roots a pound of sugar and a quarter of a pinte of
> faire water, & as
> much of rose water, & the iuice of three or fowre
> orenges, then boile
> the syrupe & scum it, then cut your roots in the
> middle & put them into
> the syrup, & boile them till they bee throughlie
> soaked in the syrupe,
> before you take it from the fire, put in a little
> musk and amber greece
> [ambergris, according to the editor]."
> --Maire
> 
> BJ of NZ wrote:
> > 
> > hi
> > could someone E-mail me this recipe
> > Our local libraries Have To the Queens taste and
> thats
> > all
> > so Until I earn some money to buy all the
> wonderful
> > books I am now getting want lists of  I will have
> to
> > beg off all the wonderful cooks on this list
> > 
> > a  recipe in Fettiplace for  sweet potatoes, I
> think.
> > >  --Maire
> > >   >>
> > >     Yep--with oranges, which is lovely. I make
> it
> > > often in the height of
> > > sweet potato season.............. :-)
> > >
> > >                 Ldy Diana
> > >
> >
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