GiGwi Jumball Rubber Basketball Dog Toy with Handle High Visability Throw Fetch Toy Dog Ball - Multicoloured

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In Shakespeare’s England, bakers in elite households prepared sugar sculptures, confectionary, marzipan, and sweet doughs shaped into knots, twists, and letters. 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. Kim Hall’s scholarship on sugar and status in the period demonstrates that British women’s increased use of sugar implicated them in the systems of commerce and colonialism that kept people of African and Caribbean descent enslaved as laborers in sugar cane fields in the Americas. If you don’t have aniseed around you can substitute fennel, but I loved the specific flavor of the aniseed here.

Aromatic with aniseed and sack, rich with egg, these jumballs reminded me of my Grandmother’s Italian cookies. This recipe “To Make Jumballs of Chocholett” is from Elisabeth Hawar’s recipe book ( now William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, fMS. 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. We even tried piping it through a plastic glove with a snipped finger since we didn’t have a pastry bag! The Jumball is perfect for really rough play as the durable rubber exterior resists even the most determined dog!

Recipes that instructed cooks to shape soft dough or marzipan into “knots,” asked bakers to draw on their experience knotting thread as well as writing “knots,” meaning elaborate circular flourishes or majuscule and miniscule letterforms (Wall 143). This manuscript contains the handwriting of three (or more) individuals and it was used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Mix with a spoon and your hands until the chocolate flavorings are evenly distributed throughout the dough. 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. The first part provides instructions for blanching and grinding almonds in a mortar and a pestle to make an almond paste .

The convenient handle makes it easy for your pup to pick up and bring back, making it a go-to choice for outdoor play. Within a few minutes of discussion, Heather and I had settled on a cooking project in addition to a visit to her class.

Our dogs enrich our lives with their love, attention, loyalty and unbridled joy, so it’s only right that we reciprocate this affection in. I’m glad to have another jumball recipe in my pocket and especially pleased that I can shape this one in creative ways. We were initially mystified by the moniker, but jumballs are a classic early modern treat: A rich, satisfying, highly-spiced, shortbread cookie. The GiGwi Jumball is perfect for really rough play as the durable rubber exterior resists even the most determined dog!

In addition to providing you with tasty updated recipes and interesting background information, we have always included “semi-diplomatic transcriptions” of the original recipes completed to a high academic standard.First of all, it instructs you to make a flower-water flavored ball of almond paste from blanched almonds and sugar.