Tasting a 400 Year Old Marmalade Recipe | Food History

Описание: This week on my journey to taste weird and wonderful food from history, I'm turning to a delicious sounding recipe for peach marmalade, from Elizabethan times!

Join me as I re-create this 400 year old recipe, and learn more about food history as I uncover some fun marmalade facts from history.

00:00 – Intro
00:49 – Peach Marmalade
02:37 – Marmalade in WW2
05:35 – High Tea
06:06 – Tasting

Recipe:
To make drie Marmelet of Peches | From The Second Part of the Good Hus-wives Jewell (1597)

Take your Peaches and pare them and cut them from the stones, and mince them very finely and steepe them in rosewater, then straine them with rosewater through a course cloth or Strainer into your Pan that you will seethe it in, you must have to every pound of peches halfe a pound of suger finely beaten, and put it into your pan that you do boile it in, you must reserve out a good quantity to mould your cakes or prints withall, of that Suger, then set your pan on the fire, and stir it til it be thick or stiffe that your stick wil stand upright in it of it self, then take it up and lay it in a platter or charger in prety lumps as big as you wil have the mould or printes, and when it is colde print it on a faire boord with suger, and print them on a mould or what know or fashion you will, & bake in an earthen pot or pan upon the embers or in a feate cover, and keep them continually by the fire to keep them dry.



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