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Monthly Archives: October 2021
Two fish dishes from the Kuchenmaistrey
1.iii Item if you would make sausages out of fish. Scale them and chop them small. Pound them in a mortar, add salt and spices, and fill the guts. Boil them like a fish with wine. Make a yellow pepper … Continue reading
Lenten roast from the Kuchenmaistrey
Expensive imported figs and raisins with spices and sugar – luxury compounded for fast day tables. 1.ii Item if you would make a hollow roast (holbrotten – a term used for roast meatloafs) that is also called a roe deer … Continue reading
Boiling fish from the Kuchenmaistrey
With Cod Pal Germ 551 finished, my next (temporary) project will be recipes from the Nuremberg Kuchenmaistrey produced around 1490. This was the earliest printed cookbook in German (and only missed being the earliest printed cookbook in any language by … Continue reading
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The first thing you are likely seeing here is a recipe. I try to translate one recipe from a historical source every day, and here is where I post them. When I have time to experiment, I also post reports … Continue reading
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Egg recipes from Cod Pal Germ 551, section two
This is the end of the recipe collection. It ends abruptly, obviously there are pages missing. 35 A dish of coblat (?) eggs If you would make a dish of coblat (?) eggs, grind a small amount (ein winzig) white … Continue reading
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Stuffed eggs from Cod Pal Germ 551, section two
34 A dish of krosz (?) eggs Item if you would make krosz (?) eggs, boil the eggs so that the yolks remain soft. Make holes at the tips and take out the yolk and (see) that the white remains … Continue reading
Calf lung fritters from Cod Pal Germ 551, section two
Lungs, chopped, battered and fried for the wealthy table. 33 A dish of calf lungs If you would make a good dish of calf lungs, boil the lungs and chop them very small. Add wine and a little boiled bacon, … Continue reading
Failed roast peas from Meister Hans
To roast peas on a spit Item, if you wish to have more peas, make roast from them. And the peas should be nicely boiled. Grind them and add spices and sugar to them. It becomes sweet from that. And … Continue reading
Sixteenth-century Spießkuchen
Today, there will be two more recipes from our weekend experiments – one a great success, the other less so. This is the success, a recipe i have long been wanting to try out over an actual fire. Spießkuchen, a … Continue reading
Stuffed morels from Cod Pal Germ 551, section two
32 A dish of sauced/spiced (gesulczten) morels Fill the morels with a good filling of eggs on the skewers and roast them well. And add (lit. pour on) a good broth that is made of spiced (gesulczten) fish or another … Continue reading