[Sca-cooks] was Theatre food in Elizabethan England is Blackberry and elderberry/flower

[Susanne Mayer]

Just a notice:

Elderflowers (take the whole flower head)  in dough are also a popular 
spring dish  in Austria (and parts of Germany). (and it is still made in the 
same manner).
As well as Hollermus (Holdermus) which is also still made here.
And yes, Hollermus is an aquired taste and has to be made from very ripe 
berries (if the birds leave you any!) as uncooked the berries are poisenous. 
It is not only an acompaniment to sweet dishes like pancakes/omllets, curd 
dumpligs, wheat semolina (Schmarren) dishes but alsotastes great with 
venison.

Blackberries are in germany also called blueberries (Schwarzbeeren, 
blaubeeren, heidelbeeren are all the same: Vaccinium myrtillus). there are a 
couple of synonyms to be found in the wiktionary
http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blaubeere

Black currants are *ribisl* (derived from ribes latin and italian)  in 
Austria and Bavaria.


Blackberries and elderberries will be ripe almost at the smae time (July to 
September, blackberries and august to september elderberries).

Regards Katharina
from the rural south of Austria, where a lot of the old traditional food is 
still made and eaten,.... ;-)

snip....


> - -- Not a tart, but an interesting recipe in Rumpolt: Take the
> elderflowers on the stalk (?), wash them and put them into a hot, sweet
> dough, then cook them in hot fat and put sugar onto it (the German text
> is online in the 'Gebackenes'-chapter of Rumpolt; #13). I heard that
> this is still made in Bohemia today.
>
> There are many recipes for _Holdermus_ in the German corpus, e.g. #38 in
> the Sabina Welserin cookbook, to mention a recipe, where you have not
> only the original, but also a translation online. -- There is a recipe
> for elderflower honey in the cookbook of Goethe's grandmother from 1724
> "Holler Honig zu machen" ... but I begin to digress.
>
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