Jumbles
We have a great recipe in our activity book for Tudor Jumbles, which are yummy sweet biscuits / cookies popular in the 1500s, at the court of Henry VIII. This is a recipe that has hardly changed in 500 years and is in our Keepsakes and Secrets activity books, which is part of the collection from Matilda, Your Tudor Girl™. We loved making them - and loved eating them!
Jumbles Tudor Knots Recipe
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From the Hearth: Eliza Leslie's 1828 Jumbles
Jumbles are a simple butter cookie similar to our modern sugar cookie. They have a long history dating back to the 16th century. Receipts (recipes) were commonly printed in cookbooks. The one being made today was published in Eliza Leslie’s 1828 cookbook “Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes & Sweetmeats”.
Original Receipt (recipe)
JUMBLES
Three eggs
Half a pound of flour, sifted
Half a pound of butter
Half a pound of powdered loaf sugar
A table-spoonful of rose-waler
A nutmeg grated
A tea-spoonful of mixed mace and cinnamon
Stir the sugar and butter to a cream. Beat the eggs very light. Throw them, all at once, into the pan of four. Put in, at once, the butter and sugar, and then add the spice and rose-water. If you have no rose-water, substitute six or seven drops of strong essence of lemon, or more if the essence is weak. Stir the whole very hard, with knife.
Spread some flour on your paste-board, and flour your hands well. Take up with your knife, a portion of the dough, and lay it on the board. Roll it lightly with your hands, into long thin rolls, which must be cut into equal lengths, curled up into rings, and laid gently into an iron or tin pan, buttered, not too close to each other, as they spread in baking. Bake them in a quick oven about five minutes, and grate loaf-sugar over them when cool.
Modern Conversion
3 eggs
1/2 lb. flour (1 ¾ c), sifted
1/2 lb. (1 c) butter
1/2 lb. (1 1/8 c) powdered loaf sugar
1 TBS rosewater
1 nutmeg (2 tsp), grated
1 tsp of mace and cinnamon, combined
Bake at 400 degrees until golden brown, about 5 minutes.
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Grandma's Mistakes | Chocolate Fudge Jumbles Oatmeal Bar Recipe with sweetened condensed milk
Original recipe:
What you’ll need:
CRUST
1 cup oleo (I used butter - 2 sticks)
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1 cup flour
1⁄4 tsp salt
1⁄2 tsp baking soda
2 cups oatmeal (I used old fashioned oats)
FILLING
1⁄2 cup oleo (I used butter - 1 stick)
2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup eagle brand sweetened condensed milk (off-brand will work just fine!)
What you’ll do:
1. Cream together butter and brown sugar; add flour, salt, baking soda and oatmeal. Mix until it is crumbly. Put 1/2 the mixture into a greased 9x13 baking pan.
2. Melt 1 stick of butter, chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk together, in a medium microwave safe bowl or in a medium saucepan pan on the stove. Stir until smooth.
3. Pour chocolate mixture over oatmeal mixture, then drop spoonfuls of the rest of the oatmeal mixture on top. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes.
They cut easiest when cooled completely
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Jumbles | Great British Bake Off | Funky Fresh Food
It’s week 8 of the Great British Bake Off, which means another technical challenge. This week we’re going back in time to the Tudor period to make Jumbles. Some are double knots and others are Celtic, but they’re all spiced and zesty! Now I may not have had all the correct ingredients, but at least I made my celtic knots correctly… I’m looking at you Paul Hollywood!
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