New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . By the last decade of the seventeenth-century, when Christian Barclay wrote this recipe “To make Almond Jumballs” in her recipe book, they could either be sugary confections or buttery dough shaped in elaborate forms. First of all, it instructs you to make a flower-water flavored ball of almond paste from blanched almonds and sugar. A favorite on the banqueting table or dessert spread, many recipes for “ Jumballs” or jumbles are collected in early modern recipe books.

This recipe also insists on the tantalizing possibility of flavoring the jumballs with chocolate, but it does not provide a lot of detail about what that chocolate would be like. Unwanted Food or Drink Products - Once supply conditions are broken, there are a number of factors outside of our control that can affect the quality of a product. I spooned some of the thin jumball batter into rounds and piped the rest into letters and knot forms. I think these pliability issues have to do with the liquid content of twenty-first-century eggs and the texture of modern, milled flour.

The GiGwi Jumball is perfect for really rough play as the durable rubber exterior resists even the most determined dog! Alyssa and I learned how to read medieval and early modern handwriting when we were graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania. Frozen products will be delivered the next working day and you must be available to accept the goods within those times. The recipe uses a sugar syrup to bind the almonds and capture the fleeting scent of orange blossom water. Every recipe book seems to have a receipt for Jumballs and we look forward to exploring more versions with you soon.

The bottoms of the almond and lemon jumballs will be golden brown and the jumballs will be crispy on the outside and soft in the middle.

We’ve since learned that they pair well with Italian Cheese, but we suspected from the beginning that they would complement vanilla ice cream, custard, fresh fruit, or a simple cup of tea. In her book Pens and Needles: Women’s Textualities in Early Modern England, Susan Frye explores the deep and pervasive connection between sewing and writing in Renaissance culture. I’d be curious to hear how an egg substitute would work if any of my readers prepare a vegan version. Add egg whites to the almond sugar mix one at a time (approximate if whipped) until your dough is moist and pliable. The strong handle makes the Jumball easy for a dog to pick up and bring back, making it a firm favourite for indoor and outdoor games.

I’ve also enjoyed baking Suffrage Angel Cake, Cinnamon Buns, Lamington Cake, and Pavlova in past years. Today I’m also inviting you to a virtual baking competition: the third annual The Great Rare Books Bake Off, a friendly contest between the sister libraries of Penn State University and Monash University. Finding the “right” dog food for your furry friend can be quite a confusing process, considering the many varieties and flavors available in the market today. They don’t look like much when you lift them onto the cooling rack (does shortbread ever look impressive? Like most recipe books from this era, Charles’s has a recipe for jumballs and I was intrigued to see flavorings that I hadn’t tried in a jumball before listed among familiar ingredients.I’m currently in residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library working on my book project, but when my former paleography teacher Heather Wolfe asked me to talk about historical recipes with her Introduction to English Paleography course I jumped at the chance. As it's best suited to outdoor play the Jumball is brightly coloured so that it can easily be seen and retrieved. Here at Cooking in the Archives we believe that people can learn a lot about early modern recipes by reading them and cooking them. Many of these recipes have never been transcribed before and posting them online in this readable form is one of our contributions to the field of historical food studies. The strong handle makes the Jumball easy for a dog to pick up and bring back, making it a firm favourite for outdoor games.