[Sca-cooks] Snow and Wafers

[Olwen the Odd]

This sounds just wonderful.  Now I shall have to break down and buy a
pizzelle iron again.  I had one for years and hardly used it so I tossed it
in the give away box.  Did you manage to take a picture of this????  It just
sounds so charming I would love to see it.
Olwen

>My barony had a Midwinter Revel this Saturday, with no feast but a
>dessert buffet.  I volunteered to make snow and wafers, which was
>an excellent excuse to buy a pizzelle baker.  I used Dame
>Hauviette's redaction for snow and Master Adamantius' redaction
>for wafer (both of which are yummy and can be found in the
>Florilegium).
>
>For those of you who don't know the dish, "snow" is a sweetened
>mixture of whipped cream and egg white.  The recipe is from "A
>Proper New Book of Cookery".  It calls for an apple in the midst of
>the snow, and a branch of rosemary stuck into the apple.  This
>looks like a pine tree in a snowy landscape.  Wafers are thin,
>crispy waffles, which can be used to scoop up the snow.
>
>In various late-period and post-period cookbooks, I had seen
>references to candying rosemary.  This is what I did:
>
>The night before, I took some rock sugar and broke it into rice-
>sized grains.  I mixed it with regular granulated sugar.  I dipped the
>fresh sprigs of rosemary in rosewater, then dredged them in the
>sugar.  Afterwards, I placed the sprigs on a sheet of wax paper,
>and sprinkled more sugar over them.  I left them in a warm place
>overnight to dry.
>
>Just before the event, I took a Granny Smith apple (firm and green),
>and sliced off part of the bottom for better stability.  With an ice
>pick, I made several holes in the top of the apple, and inserted a
>sprig of rosemary in each one.  The sugar clinging to the
>"branches" looked just like ice.
>
>I set the apple in the midst of a wide shallow bowl, and carefully
>piled the snow around it, making sure to cover the apple
>completely.  I put a few dabs of snow on the rosemary.  The bowl
>was then set in the middle of a large oval wooden platter.  I
>sprinkled the bottom of the platter with more of the sugar and rock
>candy, then placed stacks of wafers on either side of the platter.
>
>The dish was very pretty, if I do say so myself, and made a nice
>centerpiece on the buffet.
>
>
>Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann


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