Not quite Rosee

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Rosee (recipe)

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Period Recipe

From the Forme of Cury.

ROSEE. XX.II. XII.

Take thyk mylke as to fore welled. cast �erto sugur a gode porcioun pynes. Dates ymynced. canel. & powdour gynger and see� it, and alye it with flores of white Rosis, and flour of rys, cole it, salt it & messe it forth. If �ou wilt in stede of Almaunde mylke, take swete cremes of kyne.

Translation

(tentative, unfinished) Take thick milk as before directed. Cast into sugar a good portion of pynes, minced dates, cassia and ginger powder and seethe it, and alye it with flowers of white roses and riceflour, cole it, salt it and serve it. If you wish, instead of almond milk, use sweet cream of kyne.

Notes

• Rosee. From the white roles therein mentioned. See No. 41. in Mi. Ed. but No. 47 there is totally different.
• welled, f. willed; directed.

• Also Forme of Cury, but can't find it on Cunnan: (from here)

XLI. For to make Rosee [1].

Tak the flowris of Rosys and wasch hem wel in water and after bray
hem wel in a morter and than tak Almondys and temper hem and seth hem
and after tak flesch of capons or of hennys and hac yt smale and than
bray hem wel in a morter and than do yt in the Rose [2] so that the
flesch acorde wyth the mylk and so that the mete be charchaunt and
after do yt to the fyre to boyle and do thereto sugur and safroun
that yt be wel ycolowrd and rosy of levys and of the forseyde flowrys
and serve yt forth.

XLVII. FOR TO MAKE ROSEE [1] AND FRESEE AND SWAN SCHAL BE YMAD IN THE
SELVE MANER.

Nym pyggus and hennys and other maner fresch flesch and hew yt in
morselys and seth yt in wyth wyn and [2] gyngyner and galyngale and
gelofre and canel [3] and bray yt wel and kest thereto and alye yt
wyth amydoun other wyth flowr of rys.

[1] Vide No. 41.
[2] Perhaps, _in wyn with_.
[3] Cinamon. Vide Gloss.

cream 100ml
100g pine nuts
2 big handfuls white minature rose petals
2 big handfuls finely chopped dates
white sugar (3 handfuls?)
?1/2 handful riceflour

ingredients over heat - with shake of sugar - curdled. added skinny milk. didn't stop curdling, so added LOTS of sugar. kept heating over bare flame till reduced into somethign confectionary like and with nasty sugar spits. removed from heat, stirred in rose petals and rice flour until thick. poured into lined tray. shook extra riceflour on top. refridgerated.