Did they have whipped cream back in the days of Queen Elizabeth I? It would have been possible for cooks to get thick enough cream and beating by hand works (eventually), I just don’t know whether anyone had thought of doing so.
Somewhat surprisingly, yes, it did. Assuming Wikipedia is correct, one of the first whipped cream recipes was written in 1549, and Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in 1559, so it was definitely around in some form during her time as Queen.
Whipping cream by hand is easy enough, so much so that I rarely bother to take the mixer out and wash it afterwards. Just make sure the cream contains at least 3% fat and is cold.
But I bet that you use a machine of some sort — eggbeater or whisk — rather than a fork. I doubt that the Elizabethans had eggbeaters but a whisk needn’t be made of metal; it’ll just need frequent replacing if not. But a whisk isn’t as efficient as an eggbeater. Well, but we do call it “whipped” cream! and a whisk looks like a miniature stiff cat o’ nine tails.
Whipped cream again!
Why does everyone like whipped cream? Personally, I like pineapple.
Whovianesque …
I don’t know why, but I’ve suddenly started reading Llewellyn in the voice of Patrick Stewart
It’s much funnier if you read him in the voice of Pee-Wee Herman.
It should really be in the voice of Rowan Atkinson, since this is a fairly direct homage to the opening of the Blackadder episode “Chains”.
Queen? I thought it was Mrs. Calvin Coolidge?
Oh… so both?
I’ll bet nobody thought for a moment Llewellyn was talking to Ozy and Millie like that. 🙂
“foul young creature”…Llewellyn must have been a hatchling.
Queen Victoria? Or maybe Queen Elizabeth?
Did they have whipped cream back in the days of Queen Elizabeth I? It would have been possible for cooks to get thick enough cream and beating by hand works (eventually), I just don’t know whether anyone had thought of doing so.
Somewhat surprisingly, yes, it did. Assuming Wikipedia is correct, one of the first whipped cream recipes was written in 1549, and Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in 1559, so it was definitely around in some form during her time as Queen.
Thank you, Owen!
Whipping cream by hand is easy enough, so much so that I rarely bother to take the mixer out and wash it afterwards. Just make sure the cream contains at least 3% fat and is cold.
And I of course meant 30%.
But I bet that you use a machine of some sort — eggbeater or whisk — rather than a fork. I doubt that the Elizabethans had eggbeaters but a whisk needn’t be made of metal; it’ll just need frequent replacing if not. But a whisk isn’t as efficient as an eggbeater. Well, but we do call it “whipped” cream! and a whisk looks like a miniature stiff cat o’ nine tails.