Historical Culinary Reconstruction

Recipe: “To make paste of flowers and Colour of Marble, that which way soever you break it, it shall be like Marble, and betwixt the light, it shall look very clear, and shall in eating taste of the natural flowers.” From: Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne (1573-1655, attr.), Archimagirus anglo-gallicus: or, Excellent & approved receipts and experiments in cookery. Together with the best way of preserving. As also, rare forms of sugar-works: according to the French mode, and English manner. Copied from a choice manuscript of Sire Theodore Mayerne Knight, Physician to the late K. Charles. [London]: Printed for G. Bedell, ad T. Colins, and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle-Temple-Gate, in Fleet-street, 1658.

Participants: Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie and Charles Kang
Venue: 129 East 90th Street 2W
Meeting Time(s): 09/16/16 11:30AM-1:00PM; 09/17/16 4:00PM-7:00PM



I worked with Charles Kang. Field Notes on the trials, research, and references can be found on Field Notes - Charles Kang's Wiki.