Monthly Archives: December 2021

Fried filled apples from the Kuchenmaistrey

These sound interesting, but challenging 3. xxxi. Make another fried dish of filled apples thus: Take sour apples, as many as you wish, peel them, cut them apart through the middle (scheüblet) and hollow out both parts. Get roast apples … Continue reading

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Gilded fritters from the Kuchenmaistrey

More decadence 3. xi. If you would make brown patties well fried that look as though they are gilded. You shall take beaten gold ground well on a stone with water like gold colour or painters’ colour. If you can … Continue reading

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Variations on a fritter from the Kuchenmaistrey

These are so tempting… playing with food. 3. xxii. Item in another way that is called flappy fritters (lappenküchlein) without parsley and wine. Make a stiff dough with eggs and wine, the third part is milk. Draw it out on … Continue reading

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Herb fritters from the Kuchenmaistrey

These could be good. 3. xxi. Item another fritter. Take parsley, garden mint and other pleasingly fragrant seasonings (wol gesmacke wurtz) quite as (you do) for sauces. Add white breadcrumbs to it or grated gingerbread and pound that well together. … Continue reading

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Strauben fritters from the Kuchenmaistrey

A familiar standby of medieval cuisine – green with parsley this time. 3. xii. Whoever would bake good streüblein (pulled fritters) should take a handful of parsley and pound it with water and white breadcrumbs. Pass that through a cloth. … Continue reading

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“Schnabel” fritters from the Kuchenmaistrey

Back to the Kuchenmaistrey – apple fritters. 3. ix. Item a foreign fritter that is called schnabel (beak). Take white bread and cut off the crust. Make thin slices of it. Lay these on a board and cut the crust … Continue reading

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Milk Pasta from the Oeconomia

Part three of our experimental feast A sliced spoon dish (mus) of eggs Item to make a sliced spoon dish of eggs and of wheat flour. If it is to be just one dish (full), take twelve eggs and wheat … Continue reading

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“Roßknecht” onion layer pancake from the Oeconomia

A second dish from Sunday’s meal – I could not resist this recipe. To make a Rossknecht (lit. a stablehand) Take fine wheat flour and warm milk, an egg and a few onions cut into it and stir it together … Continue reading

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A Meal from the Oeconomia

Experimenting weekend again! Thank you to my awesome friends and test eaters. The main course was the Gartenhuhn you already know: To cook a garden chicken (Gartenhun) Take a nicely large, thick and hard cabbage head and cut off the … Continue reading

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Rye Christmas cookies from 1947

A deviation from my routine – today is cookie baking day. Sweet rye flour cookies 300g rye flour, 150g butter, 200g sugar, salt, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon,, 1/2 egg or 2 tablespoons milk, 1/2 (packet of) baking powder, 1 egg for … Continue reading

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