The Puzzle Ring (47 page)
Authors: Kate Forsyth
Playing Beatie Bow
by Ruth Park
The Devil's Arithmetic
by Jane Yolen
Gideon the Cutpurse
by Linda Buckley-Archer (also published as
The Time Travelers
)
FICTION
(the most useful novels about Mary, Queen of Scots, that I have read and loved)
Masque for a Queen
by Moira Miller
Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots
by Jane Yolen and Robert J Harris
The Lady of Fire and Tears
by Terry Deary, book three of the âTudor Chronicles'
Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France, 1553
by Kathryn Lasky, part of the âRoyal Diaries' series
The Dog Who Loved A Queen
by Jackie French
(the most useful of the many books I read while researching this book)
Time & Space by
John and Mary Gribbon, part of the âEyewitness' series published by Dorling and Kindersley
An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and other Supernatural Creatures
by Katharine Briggs
Abbey Lubbers, Banshees & Boggarts: A Who's Who of Fairies
by Katharine Briggs
The Book of Curses: True Tales of Voodoo
,
Hoodoo and Hex
by Stuart Gordon
Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley
by Alison Weir
Mary Queen of Scots
:
The Fair Devil of Scotland
by Jean Plaidy
Scotland Under Mary Stuart: An Account of Everyday Life
by Madeleine Bingham
Food and Feast in Tudor England
by Alison Sim
Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England
by Alison Sim
The Tudor Housewife
by Alison Sim
Scottish Fairy Tales
by Grant Campbell
Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
edited by Gordon Jarvie
Folk Tales from Moor and Mountain
by Winifred Finlay
Scottish Ghosts
by Dane Love
www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/folklore/fairies/scottish-fairies.html
www.electricscotland.com/kids/stories
When I was a little girl, my mother taught me and my sister how to make marmalade from oranges we grew in our garden. She told me that marmalade got its name when it was made for Mary, Queen of Scots, who was very seasick travelling from France to Scotland as a young women (âMarie malade' is French for âMary is ill'.) Another old story says that marmalade was first invented in Scotland after a Spanish ship carrying oranges was shipwrecked on the wild Scottish shores; the oranges were found to be too bitter to eat so were cooked with sugar.
Historians actually think a form of marmalade was first made by the ancient Romans, who cooked quince in wine and then added honey, causing the release of the pectin, which sets the mixture into jelly. It was used as medicine for tummy aches and pains. The word marmalade comes from the Portuguese word for quince, marmelo. Quince preserves, called marmelada, were imported into the UK from Portugal in the late fifteenth century.
So although Mary may have eaten marmalade made from quinces when she felt unwell, it was nothing like the orange-based recipe we use today. Apparently, though, there is some truth to the story about the Spanish ship . . . the first marmalade factory in the world was built in Dundee in 1797 by the Keiler family, apparently after Mr Keiler bought a cargo of oranges from a Spanish ship that had been blown by a storm into Dundee Harbour. His wife, Janet, finding them too bitter to eat, set about finding a use for them . . .
Here is a recipe for marmalade cakeâit's easy to make and very delicious.
1 cup of self-raising flour
Pinch of salt
4 rounded tablespoons of butter
3 rounded tablespoons of caster sugar
1 teaspoon of orange rind, finely grated
2 eggs, beaten
2 tablespoons of orange marmalade
2 tablespoons of milk
1 drop of vanilla essence
Sift the flour and salt into a bowl and rub in the butter until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar, then half the orange rind. Add the beaten eggs, marmalade, milk and vanilla. Mix well to achieve the consistency of thick batter. Grease a 6-inch round cake tin and bake in the centre of a pre-heated oven at 350F/175C for around 1 hour and 20 minutes until golden brown. Sprinkle the rest of the orange rind on top and allow to sit for a few minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
