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How To Make Candied Fruit Slices – 4 Recipes

4 recipes for homemade candied fruit slices: candied orange slices, candied kiwi slices, candied lemon slices & candied (Japanese) quince slices.

Candied Fruit Slices

Candied fruit slices are easy to make at home. They are so delicious you can simply snack on them. But candied fruit slices look also impressive as cake decoration. Learn how to make 4 different candied fruit slices at home. Continue reading How To Make Candied Fruit Slices – 4 Recipes

Victorian Flower Jelly Pudding – Layered Jello Mold

Victorian flower jelly pudding – this layered jelly and custard dessert topped with edible flowers will sure impress your guests!

Victorian Flower Jelly Pudding - Layered Jello Mold

Victorian jellies and custards were elaborate desserts served at formal dinners. This layered jello mold consist of fluffy vanilla pudding mousse with whipped egg whites, lemon jelly and is topped with edible flowers. And if you want an even more impressive dessert, you can make naturally blue butterfly pea jelly instead of lemon jelly! Continue reading Victorian Flower Jelly Pudding – Layered Jello Mold

5+ Victorian Lemon Pie Recipes

These old-fashioned lemon pies from scratch are a perfect treat for a hot summer day! Six different Victorian & Edwardian recipes for lemon pie such as lemon pie with lemon slices, classic lemon tart, lemon meringue pie & lemon cream pie.

5+ Victorian Lemon Pie Recipes

I can’t decide which of the following Victorian lemon pies was my favorite because all were so delicious! Continue reading 5+ Victorian Lemon Pie Recipes

5 Vegan Snow Ice Cream Recipes

Make instant ice cream with snow and different flavors such as lemon, mint, cinnamon and vanilla! You can even dye the vegan snow ice cream naturally blue with butterfly pea tea!

5 Vegan Snow Ice Cream Recipes

Making ice cream with freshly fallen snow is such a fun winter craft! All these 5 snow ice creams are dairy-free, egg-free and vegan. But if you eat dairy you can substitute milk for soy milk – it works just as well.

Lemon and mint chocolate chip snow ice cream were my favorites – because lemon and mint are my favorite ice cream flavors 😉 – but all 5 vegan snow ice cream recipes are  delicious! Continue reading 5 Vegan Snow Ice Cream Recipes

Vegan Naturally Blue Lemon Ice Cream With Aquafaba

This naturally blue lemon ice cream is naturally colored with butterfly pea tea! And even if it’s vegan, the ice cream is so creamy because it’s made with whipped aquafaba!

Vegan Naturally Blue Lemon Ice Cream With Aquafaba

I’m still intrigued by the dark ink blue of butterfly pea tea! It’s so easy to dye food naturally blue with butterfly pea flowers – easier than making homemade natural blue food coloring with red cabbage – and it has no taste whatsoever! That’s great because it doesn’t overpower other flavors. The ice cream is flavored with lemon zest – no lemon juice – because natural food coloring is ph-sensitive.

The naturally blue lemon ice cream is refreshing, lemony and not too sweet (feel free to add more sugar if you want) – perfect for sweltering hot summer days! Continue reading Vegan Naturally Blue Lemon Ice Cream With Aquafaba

Old-Fashioned Lemonade Recipe

Old-Fashioned Lemonade Recipe

‘All fruit juices make refreshing drinks and punches.’ (Mrs. De Graf’s Cook Book, 1922)

This old-fashioned lemonade is so delicious and easier to make than you’d think! It’s an old recipe: I found the homemade lemonade recipe in “Mrs. De Graf’s Cook Book”, which was published in 1922. All you need for this old-fashioned lemonade is lemons, sugar and water. You basically make a syrup which you later dilute with water. Continue reading Old-Fashioned Lemonade Recipe

Old-Fashioned Carrot Cake With Naturally Colored Marzipan Carrots

Old-Fashioned Carrot Cake

This carrot cake recipe dates back to the 1920s. It’s so delicious, super moist and easy to make. Plus, the old-fashioned carrot cake is naturally dairy-free and gluten-free! Continue reading Old-Fashioned Carrot Cake With Naturally Colored Marzipan Carrots

All-Natural Rose Petal Jelly – Victorian Recipe

All-Natural Rose Petal Jelly Victorian Recipe Historical Cooking No Artificial Food Dye Color

This rose jelly is made with fresh rose petals. It’s a stunning dessert, delicious and easy to make. Isn’t the color amazing? The Victorian rose jelly is made without artificial food coloring – it’s naturally colored with pink rose petals!

Victorian rose jelly is so delicious: sweet and sour, and it really tastes like roses smell. While fresh rose petals are bitter, rose jelly isn’t at all bitter! This recipe for all-natural rose petal jelly is from the Victorian era.

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