SC - Clove oil

[Philippa Alderton]

Hmmm... The Dyschefull of Snowe recipe seems simple enough to someone with
marginal experience in redaction.

The first part is very simple:
Mix 1/2 gal. of heavy cream with 8 egg whites, add rosewater and sugar to
taste.

After this it is a bit confusing.
My guess is that while whipping the mixture will produce a froth (an egg
white and cream foam, actually) and as this froth is produced, scoop it out
into a colander so that you end up with just the froth and no liquid.
Alternatively, if you have the means to whip over a half gallon of liquid to
soft peaks, just do it.  I imagine that a bowl big enough to hold several
gallons of whipped cream & egg whites (since it increases in volume as you
incorporate air) would have been hard to come by.  Even if you did have that
large of a container, whipping a little more than a half gallon of liquid in
it could be problematical.  (Of course, I could be totally off base here.)
Thinking this way, if there was a big Hobart mixer with a whisk handy or if
the recipe is scaled down, just whipping the liquid to soft peaks may
accomplish the same thing.

After all the whipping, there is one more confusing bit.  It says to put one
apple in the middle, but could be the middle of the cream or the middle of
the platter.  Putting the apple in the middle of the cream and then putting
the cream on the platter doesn't seem to make sense to me, so I think that
they probably mean the other.  I think what is going on here is a kind of a
subtlety presentation where the rosemary represents pine needles and so you
have an apple on the ground covered with snow.  It would be a very effective
christmas dish with the red of the apple and green of the rosemary showing a
bit around the white of the whipped cream and egg.

Of course, this bears no resemblance whatsoever to the redaction listed, but
seems to work for me.  YMMV

Bran MacDavid