[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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