Rose Rent Day
Yes, it's more Lincoln Cathedral Cookery.
The next important summer Festival is 24th June, the Feast of St. John the Baptist. It took on the significance of the pagan Midsummer when bonfires were lit and men and cattle passed through their embers to ward off disease and misfortune.
This was also a quarter-rent day. In the fourteenth century the manor of Fulstow, Lincolnshire, was rented for the annual payment of a rose on St John the Baptist's Day. Similar rose rents were paid on the same date in other parts of the country.
24th June also marked the beginning of summer Trade Fairs. While a Fair was running the regular Courts of the City were superseded by the Courts of Pie Powder, Pieds Poudres, or "Dusty Feet", which heard all cases arising out of matters connected with the Fair and those who came to it.
Picnicky style recipes of pies and tiffin rolls mostly for this section. Midsummer picnic baskets and all.:)
Recipe that I tried:
Royal Gingerbread - Charles II 1660
4 oz (100g) flour
3 oz (75g) sugar
1/z oz (15g) ground ginger
Yolks of 2 eggs
Egg white
Caraway seeds
Set oven at 300F/150C/Gas mark 2. Work together flour, sugar, ginger and egg yolks to a paste. Roll out to 1/6th" (0.5cm) thick. Cut out in animal shapes. Place on buttered tin. Bake slowly. When half cooked glaze with egg white and sprinkle with caraway seeds. When cooked they should be light in colour.
Maybe in 1660 they used goose eggs! The yolks of 2 eggs not enough to work that many dry ingredients to a paste. Slopped in a bit of milk and didn't worry about animal shapes. Instead baked it in a small au gratin dish. Very traditional.:P Very very gingery. Tasty and a little crunchable around the edges.
The gingerbreads used to be cooked in golden tins, animal shaped, hence "gilt off the gingerbread"
The next important summer Festival is 24th June, the Feast of St. John the Baptist. It took on the significance of the pagan Midsummer when bonfires were lit and men and cattle passed through their embers to ward off disease and misfortune.
This was also a quarter-rent day. In the fourteenth century the manor of Fulstow, Lincolnshire, was rented for the annual payment of a rose on St John the Baptist's Day. Similar rose rents were paid on the same date in other parts of the country.
24th June also marked the beginning of summer Trade Fairs. While a Fair was running the regular Courts of the City were superseded by the Courts of Pie Powder, Pieds Poudres, or "Dusty Feet", which heard all cases arising out of matters connected with the Fair and those who came to it.
Picnicky style recipes of pies and tiffin rolls mostly for this section. Midsummer picnic baskets and all.:)
Recipe that I tried:
Royal Gingerbread - Charles II 1660
4 oz (100g) flour
3 oz (75g) sugar
1/z oz (15g) ground ginger
Yolks of 2 eggs
Egg white
Caraway seeds
Set oven at 300F/150C/Gas mark 2. Work together flour, sugar, ginger and egg yolks to a paste. Roll out to 1/6th" (0.5cm) thick. Cut out in animal shapes. Place on buttered tin. Bake slowly. When half cooked glaze with egg white and sprinkle with caraway seeds. When cooked they should be light in colour.
Maybe in 1660 they used goose eggs! The yolks of 2 eggs not enough to work that many dry ingredients to a paste. Slopped in a bit of milk and didn't worry about animal shapes. Instead baked it in a small au gratin dish. Very traditional.:P Very very gingery. Tasty and a little crunchable around the edges.
The gingerbreads used to be cooked in golden tins, animal shaped, hence "gilt off the gingerbread"