The Secret Project

So I forgot to post what this actually was. I made period sweet bags for one of Maestra Giovanna's largesse challenges. I wanted to make hulwa with candied orange peels, but they turned out to be more like almond cookies, so they were almond cookies. I embroidered little bags with some of my hand dyed yellow silk. There is a picture of the silk in an earlier post.
It was definitely an adventure in cooking. The candied orange peels were really easy. Boiling down honey takes a really long time. Next time I do that, I'm going to start early on a weekend and give it at least an hour or two. The problem is that honey can't be boiled at high temperature or it will burn. It was somewhere between the soft and hard crack stage, closer to the hard crack stage. I was using ice water to check if it was at the hard crack stage. Next time I'm using a candy thermometer.