Honeyed Whipped Cream
Ingredients
1 C heavy whipping cream
3 T honey
1 t almond extract
Directions
1. Beat whipping cream until it starts to thicken.
2. Add honey and almond extract.
3. Continue beating until topping reaches desired consistency
Serve with sliced peaches and hazelnuts, alongside sliced oranges and watermelon,.
Notes
Paul D Buell and Eugene N Anderson, A soup for the Qan: Chinese dietary medicine of the Mongol era as seen in Hu Szu-Hui's Yin-shan Cheng-yao, introduction, translation, commentary, and Chinese text, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, London and New York, Kegan Paul International, 2000, pp. 715, £150.00 (0-7103-0583-4).
The Yin-shan Cheng-yao, 'Proper and essential things for the Emperor's food and drink' (1330), which is celebrated as the "first Chinese cookbook".
The Peach is acrid-sweet in flavor and lacks poison. It benefits lung ch'i and controls coughing bringing up ch'i (asthmatic coughing). It disperses hard accumulation of the upper abdomen, expels sudden severe throbbing [palpitation] of the blood, and destroys obstruction of the bowels. It causes the menses to pass and controls pain.
Hazelnuts are sweetish in flavor, neutral, and lack poison, They augment ch'i force and extend the bowels. They firm the gait and make one tolerant of hunger.
Sweet Oranges are sweet-sour in flavor and lack poison. They remove nausea. If a lot are eaten they injure liver ch'i.
Watermelon is sweetish in flavor, neutral, and lacks poison. It is good for diabetes. It regulates heart vexation and dissipates liquor poison.