Almond Ginger-Bread Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe

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Almond Ginger-Bread Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe

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To make Almond Ginger-Bread
Take a little Gum-Dragon and lay it in steep in Rosewater all night, then take half a Pound of Jordan Almonds blanched and beaten with some of that Rosewater, then take half a pound of fine Sugar beaten and searced, of Ginger and Cinamon finely searced, so much as by your taste you may judge to be fit; beat all these together into a Paste, and dry it in a warm Oven or Stove.

Almond Ginger-Bread Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe
The above Old dessert recipe for Almond Ginger-Bread is written in totally different way to today's recipe books.

There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of the text
Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified.
Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified.
Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide.
It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of cooking

Almond Ginger-Bread Old Elizabethan Dessert Recipe
The above Old dessert recipe for Almond Ginger-Bread is written in totally different way to today's recipe books.

There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of the text
Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified.
Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified.
Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide.
It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of cooking

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