[Sca-cooks] Candying horseradish

[Vincent Cuenca]

>
>Has anyone tried candying horseradish root? Wonder if it was done in 
>period? Or mustard-seed comfits? Since sugar was expensive, I imagine you 
>used it with expensive imported spices not the local mustard seed.
>
>Stefan

Hee hee hee...

>From the "Llibre de Totes Maneres de Confits":

CAPITOL .VIIJ.e PER CONFEGIR LO RAVE GUALESCH
Pendreu lo rave gualesch e reu lo e feu lo net be ab aygua. E apres telar l 
eu menut tot, e apres metreu lo al foch ab aygua  e metreu hi un bon puny de 
sall e bulla tant que sia ben mol.  E apres treureu lo n e metreu lo en 
aygua freda .viiij.o jorns mudant  tots jorns l aygua. E, com sia be 
deselat, aureu fussa vostra  mell, e, ben escumada axi com dit es, metreu lo 
ab la mel o axerop  e bulira ferm tro que lo axerop sia fet que fassa fills. 
E a mester  en una llr. de rava galesch .j. llr. de mel.

Chapter Eight To Candy Horseradish
Take the horseradish and scrape it and make it clean with water.  And then 
chop it all finely, and then put it on the fire with water and add a good 
handful of salt and boil it enough so that it is very soft.  And then take 
it and put it in cold water for nine days, changing the water each day.  
And, once all the salt is removed, have your honey made, and, well skimmed 
as it is said before, add it all to the honey or syrup and boil it rapidly 
so that the syrup is done when it makes threads. And for one pound of 
horseradish one pound of honey is enough.


I keep threatening to make this stuff and take it to the Horseradish 
Festival in Collinsville, IL.

Vicente



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>
>Has anyone tried candying horseradish root? Wonder if it was done in 
>period? Or mustard-seed comfits? Since sugar was expensive, I imagine you 
>used it with expensive imported spices not the local mustard seed.
>
>Stefan

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