Heart to Hearth Cookery

Violets

It was a breezy day as I picked the very last of the violets of the season.  The choices were to preserve them with gum arabic and sugar, make violet cakes, or make syrup of vilets-a 17th century receipt of Gulielma Penn.  I chose the latter and picked them very Clene as I only wanted the “blue” colored part of each petal.  The petals were put..in a peutor pott, with water and sett..by the fire with a few embers under and a bout the pot till they bee enough.  When enough (the water was very blue), the violets were strained out and a pound and a 1/2 of suger was put to 1/2 a pint of juce.  This blue syrup will give a lovely blue color to my calf’s foot jelly.

 

Next Saturday, May 14th, I will be conducting a hearth cooking class in New Jersey.  Visit my web site at www.hearttohearthcookery.com for details to register.  There are only one or two openings as I post this  to my blog.