Monthly Archives: March 2023

Wittenwiler’s Wedding Feast VII: How Not to Eat Eggs

Posted on 31 March 2023 by carlton_bach

Just as I was finishing my translation of culinary excerpts from Der Ring, a friend pointed out that there actually is an English translation by George Fenwick Jones. I am a bit irked with myself for not having found it … Continue reading →

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Buccaneer Cooking: Sweet Potatoes and Pimentade

Posted on 30 March 2023 by carlton_bach

Another post on buccaneer cookery, with apologies for missing out two consecutive days due to illness. Sunday’s experimental sessions included a simple, but quite pleasing dish. It is based on a description in Alexandre Exquemelin’s Bucaniers of America. The English … Continue reading →

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Further Adventures in Buccaneer Cookery

Posted on 27 March 2023 by carlton_bach

This Sunday, I had friends visiting and we tried out a few recipes from seventeenth-century sources on the Caribbean for my book project. Altogether, it was a success: I revisited some recipes I had tried in an earlier session and … Continue reading →

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New Source Translation: Culinary Recipes from the Kuenstlichs und Fuertrefflichs Kochbuch

Posted on 25 March 2023 by carlton_bach

Today is the birthday of a dear friend of mine who has been working with me in the Society for Creative Anachronism for several years now. I decided tomark the occasion with a new source translation: The culinary recipes from … Continue reading →

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Wittenwiler’s Wedding Feast VI: Kraut

Posted on 22 March 2023 by carlton_bach

Another part from Der Ring: A course of greens served with bacon and consumed with no manners at all. Now the cabbage (chraut) was ready, covered in bacon (speck) and fried lardons (greuben). It was served together with fish. The … Continue reading →

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Wittenwiler’s Wedding Feast V: A Heroic Death

Posted on 21 March 2023 by carlton_bach

Another piece of the feast in Der Ring, illustrating the dangers of eating fish improperly. Then they started on the fish that were on the table. Straub (a server) wanted to try them first (chredenzet haben), but he saw such … Continue reading →

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Wittenwiler’s Wedding Feast IV: The Roast

Posted on 19 March 2023 by carlton_bach

Another excerpt from the wedding feast in Der Ring: Lady Else, having enjoyed bread, cheese, and wine, is served the second course of roast meat: Spiegelmais (a server) did not tarry long, poured cider (öpfelgtrank) into the pitcher after his … Continue reading →

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New Source Translation: Wahre Hoveschheit

Posted on 18 March 2023 by carlton_bach

I’m glad to announce the upload of a new translation. The Wahre Hoveschheit (true courtesy) is a Tischzucht or book of table manners most likely produced in the fifteenth century for a monastic community in Westfalia. It specifically addresses members … Continue reading →

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Wittenwiler’s Wedding Feast III: Drinking

Posted on 17 March 2023 by carlton_bach

Another excerpt from the Grobianic wedding feast in Der Ring: How not to drink someone’s health. Else called for the first course to be brought to her. One of the company became her server and brought her in his bare … Continue reading →

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Wittenwiler’s Wedding Feast II: Setting the Table

Posted on 15 March 2023 by carlton_bach

Another brief excerpt from Wittenwiler’s Der Ring: Setting up the tables for the feast: By now, people should have danced, but the feet could not carry them for hunger. That is why four who would serve at the table went … Continue reading →

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