[Sca-cooks] dessert onions

[Johnna Holloway]

This is the only one that I have found that might come close
and I suspect that it only fits depending upon what one's idea
of a sweet dish should be--

/This is an excerpt from *Libro di cucina/ Libro per cuoco*.
The original source can be found on Louise Smithson's website 
<http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/libro.html>./

II - Ambroyno (a sweet food). If you want to make ambroyno, take a hen 
and chop in pieces, take onions well minced and fry them in strained 
lard, and put in sweet and strong spices, and ginger, and cloves, and 
grains of paradise, and cut them small with a knife and put them to fry 
everything together. And take un-peeled almonds and grind them and take 
verjuice and saffron together. When it is cooked put it over the hen. 
For three hens you want a pound of almonds.

There is also this oddball one for an Almond milk that includes onions

/This is an excerpt from *Le Menagier de Paris* (Janet Hinson, trans.)
The original source can be found on David Friedman's website 
<http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/Menagier.html>./

ALMOND MILK. Parboil and peel your almonds, then put in cold water, then 
grind and soak in water in which onions have been cooked and strain 
through a sieve: then fry the onions, and add a little salt, and boil on 
the fire, then add the sops. And if you make almond milk for sick 
people, do not add onions, and in place of the onion water to soak the 
almonds as spoken of above, add and soak them in clean warm water and 
boil it, and do not add salt, but lots of sugar. And if you want to make 
it as a drink, strain through a sieve or through two pieces of cloth, 
and lots of sugar to drink it.

But of course their idea of a dessert varied in a number of ways from ours.

Johnnae


> Stefan wrote:
>   
>> (snip) but does anyone know of any 
>> period desserts that contain onions?
"Dan Brewer" responded:

>>  googledit and came up with 
>> http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Sweet_20Onion_20Dessert 
>> http://www.weslaco.com/onionfestival.asp 
>>
>> Carmelized Onion Omelet with Vinegar
>>     
> But wasn't his point that the dessert item should be within period?  What
> period cookery book recipe is the caramelized onion omelet based on?
>
> Alys Katharine
>
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