reference: plat-1609
8 posts in this collection
- Eringo
The roots of Eringus or Eyringo, the Sea Holly (Eryngium maritimum), used as a food ingredient, as a vegetable, or, commonly candied as a, reputedly aphrodisiac...
- Jumbles
Cooked shapes such as knots, rings or S-shapes, of rich pastry (eg, flour, butter, sugar and egg) with flavourings such as almonds, lemon, peel or, in the earli...
- Lettuce or Mallow Suckets
Lettuce stalks, peeled, boiled, dried and candied, as a sweet (Plat 1609, Digby 1669, etc).
- Marmalade
Sweet semi-set fruit-and-sugar jam preserve made with citrus fruit (orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, singly or in any combination) usually including chopped fru...
- Musk Sugar
Sugar stored with a little musk wrapped in cloth (Plat 1609, etc)
- Prince Biscuits
Batter of flour, sugar, eggs, rosewater and sweet seeds (caraway, aniseed), baked in small buttered paste moulds (Plat 1609, WM 1671, etc.)
- Quiddany
A thick semi-set fruit syrup, almost a jelly or jam (Plat 1609, Digby 1669, etc.)
- Violet Syrup
Violet flowers boiled with sugar syrup. Known at least since AW 1591.