Sweet Love Preserve from Nostradamus.

Saveurs du monde.net published the Sweet Love Preserve recipe for Saint Valentine Day. I took the liberty of translating it because I think it's interesting and also it should taste very good. Enjoy!

"Physician and alchemist, famous in the Renaissance times, Nostradamus published a Treaty of preserves where the following recipe is included 'for those females whose frigid womb makes them inadequate for conception and the satisfaction of legitimate appetites'.

Ingredients

- 1 kg of honey from the mountains

- 300 g of fresh ginger root

Preparation

1. Peel and clean the ginger; cut it in fine sticks, wash them several times;
2. Place in a pot and cover with water; boil 10 min.;
3. drain; and restart the process 2 more times boiling 10 min. and one last time boiling 20 min.;
4. drain all night;
5. in a pot with a heavy-base, boil the ginger in the honey during 15 min.;
6. boil it again next day and the following day always only for 15 min.;
7. Save it in a glass jar and have one soup spoonful when you need to recover your ardor."