ELIZABETHAN FOOD AND DRINK VARIED ACCORDING TO STATUS AND WEALTH. IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ERA MEAT WAS A SIGN OF WEALTH. BUT AS THE POPULATION ROSE, THIS WAS SUPPORTED BY IMPROVING AGRICULTURAL TECHNIQU
Violet Cakes To make Violet Cakes Take them clipped clean from the whites and their weight in fine Sugar, wet your Sugar in fair water, and boil it to a Candy height, then put in your Violets, and stir them well together, with a few drops of a Limon, then pour them upon a wet Pye-Plate, or on a slicked paper, and cut them in...
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- 1. Violet Cakes To make Violet Cakes Take them clipped clean from the whites and their weight in fine Sugar, wet your Sugar in fair water, and boil it to a Candy height, then put in your Violets, and stir them well together, with a few drops of a Limon, then pour them upon a wet Pye-Plate, or on a slicked paper, and cut them in what form you please; do not let them boil, for that will spoil the colour: Thus you may do with any Herb or Flour, or with any Orange or Limon Pill, and, if you like it, put in a little Musk or Ambergreece Violet Cakes Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe The above Old dessert recipe for Violet Cakes is written in totally different way to today's recipe books! There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of the text Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified! Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified! Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide! It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of cooking Some of the language might be referred to as 'Olde English' The art of cooking and the recipe was passed verbally from one generation to the next The first printed book ever to be published in English was in 1474! Most Elizabethan women were unable to read! The idea of a Recipe Book was an entirely new concept The first Recipe Books to be printed in England which included many old Elizabethan and Medieval recipes were called: 1545 - 'A Propre new booke of Cokery' 1588 - 'The Good Huswifes Handmaid for Cookerie in her kitchen' 1596 - 'The Good Hyswife's Jewell' 1610 'Mrs. Sarah Longe her Receipt Booke'
- 2. The above Old recipe is taken from the book by Hannah Woolley (1622-1675) printed at the White Lion in Duck-Lane, near West-Smithfield, London in 1672 and entitled:
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