[Sca-cooks] elderflowers
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Tue Jun 3 22:58:36 PDT 2008
Grace asked:
<<< 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? >>>
If you'll go to the top page of the Florilegium, and plug in
"elderflower" there you will get nine hits. There are a number of
recipes that reference "elderflower" including:
an elderflower pudding
This file:
cook-flowers-msg (90K) 12/ 1/06 Cooking with flowers. Medieval
flower dishes
with some mention of elderflowers.
An elderflower fritter mentioned in the cookbooks-msg file.
An elderflower fritter
and elderflower vinegar in the vinegar-msg file.
There is a recipe using elderflower in this manuscript translation:
Eberhard-art (91K) 6/29/05 A 15th century German recipe
collection
translated by Giano Balestriere.
<<< 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? >>>
I can't remember the answer right now, but this has been discussed
previously. Check this file in the FOOD-FRUITS section:
grapes-msg (46K) 1/12/08 Period grapes, raisins and currants.
Stefan
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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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