Thickened cream flavoured with sweet spices and rose petals (Cury 1390, Austin 1440)


Original Receipt in the 15th Century 'Austin Manuscripts' (Austin 1440)

ROSEE.
Take blanched milk as to fore welled. Cast thereto sugar a good portion pine-nuts. Dates minced. Cinnamon. & powder ginger and seethe it, and ally it with flowers of white Roses, and flour of rice, cole it, salt it & present it forth. If thou wilt in stede of Almond milk, take sweet cremes of cows.