Apple Float

[Stiles/Akin]

On page 9 of "The War Outside my Window", Leroy's entry for 2/15 states that his mother made some apple float.
I found this recipe is probably very close to what she made...
http://atasteofhistorywithjoycewhite.blogspot.com/2016/08/apple-float.html?m=1

 

[Shalom Hobbitess]

Sounds interesting.

I have never tried any of the Victorian-era recipes with rose or orange blossom flavoring. I've made and had lavender flavored things and they're alright, but there's always a part of me that keeps thinking I'm eating soap. While I've never gotten rose-scented soap, my grandmother did. So I just dunno. I may try some of them sometime, but I'm thinking they're not going to become favorites.

One of the great food disappointments of my life was discovering that the Turkish Delight Edmund so craved in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was likely rose-flavored.

But then I discovered baklava and got over it.

 

[mofederal]

I wouldn't mond trying this one. It sounds great.

 

[Anna Elizabeth Henry]

Sounds interesting.

I have never tried any of the Victorian-era recipes with rose or orange blossom flavoring. I've made and had lavender flavored things and they're alright, but there's always a part of me that keeps thinking I'm eating soap. While I've never gotten rose-scented soap, my grandmother did. So I just dunno. I may try some of them sometime, but I'm thinking they're not going to become favorites.

One of the great food disappointments of my life was discovering that the Turkish Delight Edmund so craved in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was likely rose-flavored.

But then I discovered baklava and got over it.

The big thing with any use of rose or orange blossom flavoring is to be very light-handed with it! Believe it or not the rosewater infused cake I've made in the past wasn't overbearing in the least. If you decide to ever attempt using it be sure to buy cooking grade rosewater. If you've every had any rose infused tea that would give you an idea how subtle the rose comes through. It's got a floral sweetness to it.

LOL! Yes, I spent a long time wondering what was so wonderful about Turkish Delight after I saw them in a specialty food shop as a teenager. It looked like powdered gooey gumdrop squares and not liking gumdrops, I was turned off by them.

 

[Shalom Hobbitess]

Yes, I spent a long time wondering what was so wonderful about Turkish Delight after I saw them in a specialty food shop as a teenager. It looked like powdered gooey gumdrop squares and not liking gumdrops, I was turned off by them.

I'm okay with gumdrops, depending on how fresh they are, and loved the licorice, lime and lemon Chuckles as a child.

http://www.candygurus.com/chuckles/

Half the time I got them, I'd give away the cherry and orange, yet I liked them enough to spend my limited cash on a candy I only ate two thirds of! Add in the popularity of gummi bears, and the texture things was understandable to me.

I'm sure you're right about the light touch thing, but I'm still not seeing the appeal of rose flavoring. My candy tastes have always run to things like licorice and dark chocolate and caramel and teaberry; I like tart fruit flavors but less fond of sweeter ones, so rose is definitely at the wrong end of things for me.

 

[NH Civil War Gal]

Sigh.... What's wrong with you people!!! The real Turkish delight comes in a small cardboard box that has a string to open the paper around it. Then little puffs of powdered sugar waft out. You open the paper and... nirvana! I was raised on it from a very early age. When Narnia came out, I was in heaven because people who thought they'd like Turkish delight didn't, and I got a lot of it. The tarted up version of it as in Apple Cotlets is close but not quite the same thing.

Getting back to Apple Float - I read that book and I was thinking about this too. And I wondered what kind of apples the mother used. I remember him saying, at different times, how they sometimes had sour apples or wormy ones. I'm guessing they wouldn't have been the size of what we consider normal now. I'd be interested in trying this recipe so any input on this for @Stiles/Akin would be appreciated! Up here in NH we have lots of Macs but they wouldn't have been down south at the time and they may have been far too sweet for this.