quiddony

Updated: May 9, 2025

Take Chicory new and green, the outward Bark being taken away, then before they be candied, let them be cut in several parts, and gently boiled, that no bitterness may remain, then set them in the air placed severally, and put sugar to them boiled to a height. Touching Marmalets, and Quiddony, as followeth. To make Marmalet of Damsins.

Anonymous - A Queens Delight: The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right: Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent: Waters.

To make Quiddony of Pippins of Ruby or any Amber colour.

Anonymous - A Queens Delight: The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right: Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent: Waters.

To make Quiddony of all kind of Plums. Take your Apple-water, and boil the Plums in it till it be red as Claret Wine, and when you have made it strong of the Plums, put to every pint half a pound of Sugar, and so boil it till a drop of it hang on the back of a spoon like a quaking gelly.

Anonymous - A Queens Delight: The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right: Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent: Waters.

Take your Pippins green and quoddle them in fair water, but let the water boil first before you put them in, & you must shift them in two hot waters before they will be tender, then pull off the skin from them, and so case them in so much clarified Sugar as will cover them, and so boil them as fast as you can, keeping them from breaking, then take them up, and boil the syrup until it be as thick as for Quiddony; then pot them, and pour the syrup into them before they be cold.

Anonymous - A Queens Delight: The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right: Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent: Waters.