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Renaissance Dessert Recipes
Make Your Own Sweetmeats Using Authentic Renaissance Dessert Recipes
Why might you be interested in Renaissance dessert recipes? Well, perhaps you are curious about what the early desserts tasted like and how they were prepared.
Perhaps you would like to host a party or banquet with a Medieval, Elizabethan, or Shakespearean theme and serve authentic sweetmeats.
Maybe you enjoy staging Medieval dinners and re-enactments, or hosting Renaissance faires complete with genuine cakes, puddings, marchpanes, and leaches.
But maybe you just enjoy eating good-tasting confections.
Whatever the reason, these are the Renaissance dessert recipes you have long been looking for.
Making your own Renaissance desserts is easy and it's inexpensive. It is certainly a lot of fun. You will soon be making your very own delicious pastes, cakes, biskets, tarts, leaches, candy, marmalets, and marchpane -- a veritable cornucopia of historical treats.
This site is your passport to re-creating all the authentic sweetmeats of Merry Old England. There are even a few Renaissance drink recipes thrown in.
Desserts Fit For A QueenThese original dessert recipes from the Renaissance Era were first published over three centuries ago in seventeenth-century English confectionery books, but it is likely that some are much older. The Renaissance Era was the transition period between the Medieval Era and the modern world, so if you are searching for Medieval food recipes or Elizabethan cooking recipes, you will find several in the collection.
The authors claim to have once been employed as royal chefs in the household of King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria. Some of the recipes are believed to be recipes taken from Queen Henrietta Maria's personal recipe collection. Just imagine, a treasure-trove of confectionery recipes that are truly fit for a queen!
A Taste Of HistoryConsidering the age of these Renaissance dessert recipes, it will surprise you to discover how straightforward the instructions are and that the recipes often call for surprisingly large amounts of sugar. If you look at my brief article on
The History of Sugar,
you will be amazed at the amount of sugar that was commonly used from the beginning of the Medieval Era and throughout the Renaissance Era.
These recipes extend to us a fascinating peek into the type of desserts and confections people were eating over three centuries ago, and the recipes and ingredients they used to prepare them. Renaissance cooks wove ingenuity and patience into their recipes, as they could only use the ingredients and equipment they had available. It is quite an experience to taste the actual treats our ancestors once enjoyed!
By the way, if you're a dedicated history buff and would like to attend Medieval dinners, Renaissance faires, and re-enactments, the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating pre-seventeenth-century European history. For tons of interesting reading and references, check out the official website of The Society for Creative Anachronism (www.sca.org).
Read The GlossaryEnjoy reading and experimenting with these historic dessert recipes. They are presented here as they were first published in the mid 1600s.
If you have difficulty reading the Early-Modern-English style of writing, or you need to shed light on any outdated ingredient names and cooking terms, you will find my
Renaissance Dessert Recipes Glossary
quite helpful and interesting.
Authentic Renaissance Recipes
Cake
Pudding
Gingerbread
Marchpane, or Marzipan
Candy
Leach
Fruit Paste
Marmalet
Pie
Tarts
Biscuit
Custard
Tansie
Drink and Hot Beverage
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