[Sca-cooks] fruit preserves and marmalades

[Nancy Kiel]

I've successfully made preserves by cooking equal amounts of fruit and sugar
veeerrryyy sloooowwwlllyyy over low heat.  Eventually you cook enough liquid
off for it to gel.  I've seen 18th century receipts calling for currant
juice/jelly and pippin juice/jelly to set them.  I'm not sure quinces would
have been used for their pectin with other fruit because of the difference
in seasonal availability, though I have seen it in one modern recipe.



Nancy Kiel
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.   Emerson





>From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] fruit preserves and marmalades
>Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 00:34:53 -0600
>
>Brigit asked:
>>so what about perserves.  My family has been doing
>>homeade perserves for generations.  Wouldn't they have
>>done that?
>
>Yes, they did.
>
>>when did perserves start being made?
>
>You need a source of pectin and sugar or honey. I believe quinces were
>the first done because of their large amount of available pectin.
>
>>It would make sense to me that they did that in wintertime.
>Not necessarily. You need to make the preserves when the fruit is
>
>still fresh. If that season is winter, then winter. If that season
>is summer or fall, then the preserves were made then. Yes, I imagine
>you could make preserves with say, a pickled or dried fruit. But why?
>For more info, see these files in the FOOD-FRUITS section of the
>Florilegium:
>
>fruit-quinces-msg (64K) 12/14/02    Period uses and recipes for quinces.
>http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-FRUITS/fruit-quinces-msg.html
>
>Period-Fruit-art  (60K)  1/13/02    "Fruit of Period Times" by Baron
>                                        Akim Yaroslavich.
>http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-FRUITS/Period-Fruit-art.html
>And in the FOOD-SWEETS section:
>marmalades-msg    (60K)  5/17/02    Period marmalades and fruit jellies and
>jams
>http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/marmalades-msg.html
>--
>THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas
>StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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>
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