[Sca-cooks] Fwd: cherries
Sharon Palmer
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Sat Jul 23 13:49:51 PDT 2011
>Hi there! This turned up on another list I'm on.
>Does anyone have any suggestions for her?
>
>Liutgard
>
>I was just out at ME Moore on Seavey loop and
>discovered that you can get upick bird cherries
>there for 15 cents a pound. It strikes me that
>these are a great period ingredient as they
>would be much closer to the type of cherries
>available in Medieval Europe than any commercial
>variety. Anyway, I came home with 11 pounds and
>would appreciate any suggestions on how to deal
>with them so they are available in the future
>for period recipes. I am not going to pit them
>individually.
>
>Martha
Both sweet and sour cherries are known from at
least Roman times. "Sour cherry" is Prunus
Cerasus, sweet cherry is Prunus avium).
Definitions say Bird cherry is Prunus padus, and
too sour to be used, but I wonder if she has a
wild version of Prunus avium? I think the
various recipes should work, but if they are very
sour, she may need to add more suga
Either way, for most medieval recipes, I think
pie cherries might be a better choice if she can
find them, but I'm sure this will be interesting.
Please let us know how it goes.
Rumpolt calls for two kinds of sour cherry,
amarellen which have yellow flesh (may have red
skins or not) and weischel which have red flesh.
From Rumpolt:
Zugemüß 18. Amarellen - Sour yellow cherries
fried/ with a batter eingemacht*/ as mentioned
before/ as one should make a batter/ and quickly
fried.
Zugemüß 214. Weichselmuß - Sour cherry sauce.
Take cherries/ pull them away from the stems/ and
wash them off/ put them in a fish kettle/ and
slice bread into it/ pour water over it/ and let
simmer together/ strain it through a hair cloth/
that it is nicely thick/ and put it again in a
tinned fish kettle/ stir ground cinnamon bark and
sugar over it/ set it on coals/ and stir well/
until it cooks/ dress it in a dish/ and when you
will give it on a table/ be it cold or warm/ then
sprinkle it with coated fennel/ like this it is
good and well tasting.
Zugehörung 1. Weichsel Salsen - Sour cherry
sauce/ when it is cooked thick/ then one
dissolves with wine and sugar/ sprinkle with
coarse sugar/ like this is is good and well
tasting. - this was served as a condiment with
meat and poultry.
Suppen 34. Take dried sour cherries/ grind it
with the stone (or press out the stone?)/ strain
it though with wine/ make sweet with cinnamon and
sugar and let it simmer together/ like this it is
a good cherry soup.
Suppen 36. Take sour yellow cherries
(Amarellen)/ crush them with the stone (or press
out the stone?)/ they are dry or fresh/ strain it
though with cinnamon and wine/ and make it well
sweet/ let it simmer together/ it is good like
this.
Gebackens 3. Take sour cherry sauce/ and coat a
wafer/ put another wafer over/ and cut small or
large. Make a batter with wine and flour/ yellow
it a little/ and press the other into the batter/
so that the wafers remain together/ throw into
hot butter and do not burn/ give it warm on a
table/ and sprinkle it with white sugar.
Gebackens 15. Fried sour cherries/ fried in such
a batter. (from 13. Make a batter with clean
eggs or milk/ that is sweet)
Gebackens 41. Make a dough with milk/ eggs/ and
beautiful white flour/ put a little beer year in
it/ and make a good dough/ that is not completely
stiff/ and do not over salt it/ set it to the
warm/ that it nicely risen/ punch it down on a
clean board/ and do little black raisins around
it/ make strutzel from it/ throw it in hot
butter/ and fry/ like this it will nicely puff
up/ give cold or warm on a table/ sprinkle it
with sugar/ like this it is a good pastry.
Gebackens 42. Take such a dough/ and drive it
out/ wrap sour cherry sauce in it/ cut up with
the wheel/ throw in butter/ and fry/ give warm on
a table/ and sprinkle it with white sugar/ like
this it is a good fritter of sour cherry sauce/
You might make such a fritter from various sauces.
Confect 6. Sour cherry confect with water/ that
the broth becomes nicely thick/ and the cherries
set out in a dish/ pour the broth over the
cherries/ and let become cold. You can also well
preserve in a round box/ and pour the broth over
the top/ that the stems go nicely over
themselves/ be it in the dish or in the box/ like
this it is also good.
Eyngemachten 2. Amarellensafft. Sour yellow
cherry juice (or candy). Take cherries/ that are
nicely red/ tear the stems off/ and wash them
clean/ set on (the fire) in a clean fish kettle/
and let come to a simmer/ like this it gives a
juice from itself/ put them in a sack/ and press
out/ take a clean fish kettle or a clean pot/ put
a little sugar in it/ and let simmer together/
until becomes thick/ until it becomes thick/
which you think such to pour in a mold/ and from
the mold to put in a box. If you however would
have it sweet/ then you might take even more
sugar. If you would like to have it sour/ then
take even less sugar/ so it becomes good and
elegant. Safft usually means juice, but this is
a solid that is shaped into subtleties.
Eyngemachten 9. Take yellow sour cherries/ and
take the stone out/ and spread them through (a
sieve)/ put them in a syrup/ that is well boiled/
stir up/ that it does not burn/ and let simmer/
until you think/ that it has enough/ put it in a
box/ like this it is a good preserve/ is nicely
yellow and sour/ may sugar or not.
Sharon
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