[Sca-cooks] Renaissance Dessert Recipes Ebook
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Fri Dec 3 07:47:13 PST 2010
Here's a new ebook I came across this am-
It's advertised as:
"Renaissance Dessert Recipes Ebook. Over 450 Treats Fit For A Queen
Now with my Renaissance Dessert Recipes ebook, you can make authentic
Renaissance Era cakes, puddings, pies, tarts, candy, preserves, and
lots more!
From: Don Bell, Peterborough, ON
Date: December 3, 2010
Subject: How To Make Medieval and Renaissance Desserts! "
Then it says:
"Dear Fellow Renaissance Recipe Fan,
Imagine having access to rare, hard-to-find recipes for over 450
Renaissance-style confections and desserts from the time of Charles I
and Queen Henrietta Maria.
You will love making all the popular Renaissance and Medieval desserts
such as comfits, lozenges, quiddony, Spanish candy, pastes, leaches,
pastes, and the famous royal marchpane -- they are all here for you to
enjoy."
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http://www.homemade-dessert-recipes.com/renaissance-dessert-recipes-cookbook.html
Ok so when did Charles I and Henrietta Maria and the English Civil War
quit being Early Modern History and become suddenly part of the
medieval and Renaissance period?
Looks to me like the volume may be a reprint just of two works from
the 1650's and 1670.
The website states:
"This section of the Renaissance Dessert Recipes cookbook includes
over 280 authentic dessert recipes that were first published in the
early 1600s by chefs once employed in the royal kitchens."
No -- not early 1600's. Try 50 years later and 70 years for The Queen-
like Closet.
Then it offers--
PART THREE: VICTORIAN RECIPES
This section of the Renaissance Dessert Recipes cookbook includes over
170 Renaissance-style dessert recipes that were first published in the
late 1800s by professional chefs who were well trained in the
traditional, old-world methods of confectionery making.
The master confectioners give detailed directions for sugar boiling
and recipes for making all the traditional English comfits, sweetmeats
and spun sugar creations. In this, they provide an excellent companion
to the seventeenth-century recipes featured in Part Two of this ebook.
The Complete Confectioner and The Sugar-Boiler's Assistant.
Johnnae
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