A beautiful landscape outside this morning , cool, crisp and glazed with winter sunshine. Similar to my kitchen that has now been transformed into an apothecaries den, complete with spirits and frostings of sugar.
With a delivery of beautiful Cornish violets the task of crystallizing has consumed my kitchen. Blending equal parts of vodka and gum tragacanth I carefully painted the flowers and with help from my darling friend Pam we liberally shook caster sugar over each bloom and lay them out on racks in the airing cupboard. This was rather time consuming as each bunch held twenty stems and their were 60 bunches! Some Violas were all so incarcerated in this intoxicating sugary potion. With huge success, their little faces clearly incased. Now to be used as decoration on Carolyn's delicious fudge along with the preserved violets. So delightfully pretty .
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