Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts

Monday, July 8, 2019

Fuller's Freezing Machine, Manual with recipes & ice cream made with flowers

William Fuller of London invented his "Neopolitan Freezing Machine" (an early mechanized ice cream maker, replacing the sorbetiere) and wrote A Manual: containing original recipes for preparing ices, in 1851 before his patent.  Some interesting ice cream recipes included Spumoni, Spongati, Flowers, Candied eggs and many flavors. By 1847 he was the "ice pail maker" to Queen Victoria and other royals.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Flowers - To candy, to make paste, a conserve

While looking through Queen's Delight. London: 1683 in the LofC rare books room, I came across these interesting receipts using flower petals - a paste, conserve of Piony, and candied Rosemary flowers...