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Title: Apple Snow (Scottish Elizabethan)
Categories: Irish Medieval Fruit Dessert
Yield: 4 Servings
| ** British Measurements ** | ||
| 1 1/2 | lb | Cooking apples; peeled, |
| . cored & sliced | ||
| 1 | tb | Rose-water |
| Caster sugar; to taste | ||
| 3 | Egg whites | |
| 3 | oz | Caster sugar |
| 1/4 | pt | Whipping cream |
| Fresh rosemary sprigs; for | ||
| . garnish | ||
| Gold dragees for garnish |
Cook the sliced apples with the rose-water until soft, then rub them through a fine sieve to make a smooth puree. Taste and sweeten with a little sugar if necessary. Leave to get cold, then measure out about 1/2 pint.
In a large clean bowl, beat the egg whites until they stand in soft peaks. Gradually beat in the caster sugar and continue to beat to a stiff, glossy meringue. Gently fold in the measured apple puree, then spoon into individual glasses or sundae dishes. Top with swirls of whipped cream and decorate with rosemary and gold dragees.
Makes about 4 to 6 servings. ** A Book of Historical Recipes ** by Sara Paston-Williams The National Trust of Scotland, 1995 ISBN = 0-7078-0240-7
Scanned and formatted for you by The WEE Scot -- pol mac Griogair ORIGINAL RECIPE::
To Make a Dyschefull of Snowe (dated from 1572 AD)
"Take a pottell (half a gallon) of swete thycke creame and the whytes of eyghte egges, and beate them altogether wyth a spone. Then putte them in youre creame and a saucerful of Rosewater, and a dyshe full of Sugar wyth all. Then take a stycke and make it cleane, and then cutte it in the ende foure square, and therwith beate all the aforesayde thynges together, and ever as it ryseth take it of and put it into a Collaunder. This done, take one apple and set it in the myddes of it, and a thicke bushe of Rosemary, and set it in the myddes of the Platter. Then cast your Snowe uppon the Rosemary and fyll your platter therwith. And yf you have wafers caste some in wyth all and thus serve them forthe."
Historical note: The greatest innovation in Elizabethan cookery was the discovery of eggs as a raising agent. Whites of eggs produced "Snowe", a centrepiece for the banquet.
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