[Sca-cooks] elderflowers
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Tue Jun 3 18:07:08 PDT 2008
On Jun 3, 2008, at 8:03 PM, KristiWhyKelly at aol.com wrote:
> Has anyone had experience with elderflowers? I've ordered dried
> ones years
> ago and I remember them as almost too fragrant. My Adams
> elderflower finally
> flowered this year, and I wonder if I need to do something with
> them, like
> dry them. Fresh, they have no scent nor flavor.
>
> Any ideas? Or do I just hold out for the berries?
The flowers are good in sambocade, which is a 14th-century English
cheesecake variant flavored with elder flowers. The recipe doesn't
specify that they be dried, but it seem like it works much better with
dried flowers. Basically it's fresh white curd cheese, egg (whites
only), the flowers and a little sugar in a crust.
> Also, I've found references to currants but not the colors in recipes,
> anyone know if the black ones are periodish or should I just save
> the red ones for
> my SCA recipes?
The extreme likelihood is that most of the currant references in
medieval recipes are to Raisins of Corinth, a.k.a. Zante currants,
which are really a small, dried grape. I won't try to rule out the use
of red or black berry-type currants, but it does seem like they're
vastly outnumbered by Raisins of Corinth.
Adamantius
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