I know some people dislike the sliminess of plant mucilage, but I love it! There is a special green soup in Egypt called Mulukhiyah that is rich in mucilage from another okra relative (species name: Corchorus olitorius) that is most definitely slimy in feel, but delicious!
I found this article and recipe. Stay Puffed My Friends Part 2: France and Pâte De Guimauve — Adventures in Taste and Time https://share.google/JFggfP6l0yYUPILRf
Excerpt from: “Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts; Constituting a Complete and Universal Practical Library, and Operative Cyclopædia By Colin MACKENZIE
1823
Pate de Guimauve (marshmallow paste)
Take a decoction of marshmallow roots, 4oz (113.4 grams). water, 1 gallon (3.79 litres).
Boil 4 pints and strain; then add gum arabic half a pound, refined sugar, 2 lbs (0.91 kilograms). Evaporate to an extract, then take from the fire, stir it quickly with the whites of twelve eggs previously beaten to a froth: then add, while stirring half an oz of orange flower water.
We have learned of similar healing properties from the cattail "mucuous," though we prefer to call it "cattail aloe!" Thanks for the marshmallow history...always enjoy learning from you! :)
Nature's medicine and food! Muscilagenous is such a good word, I've used it in the past describing Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
I know some people dislike the sliminess of plant mucilage, but I love it! There is a special green soup in Egypt called Mulukhiyah that is rich in mucilage from another okra relative (species name: Corchorus olitorius) that is most definitely slimy in feel, but delicious!
I'd love to try it!
I found this article and recipe. Stay Puffed My Friends Part 2: France and Pâte De Guimauve — Adventures in Taste and Time https://share.google/JFggfP6l0yYUPILRf
Fantastic find! Thanks for sharing this!
I was able to locate this one:
Excerpt from: “Five Thousand Receipts in All the Useful and Domestic Arts; Constituting a Complete and Universal Practical Library, and Operative Cyclopædia By Colin MACKENZIE
1823
Pate de Guimauve (marshmallow paste)
Take a decoction of marshmallow roots, 4oz (113.4 grams). water, 1 gallon (3.79 litres).
Boil 4 pints and strain; then add gum arabic half a pound, refined sugar, 2 lbs (0.91 kilograms). Evaporate to an extract, then take from the fire, stir it quickly with the whites of twelve eggs previously beaten to a froth: then add, while stirring half an oz of orange flower water.
We have learned of similar healing properties from the cattail "mucuous," though we prefer to call it "cattail aloe!" Thanks for the marshmallow history...always enjoy learning from you! :)