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Monthly Archives: April 2023
Nut Porridge from the Innsbruck MS
Just a brief recipe today, from the current translation project: 16 If you would make a puree of nuts, let the nuts boil in a pan until their skins come off. Then pound them and pass them through with semel … Continue reading
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Experiment: Peasant Dumplings
The fourth post in our peasant food experiment, and the one that got away, as it were: Peasant Dumplings from the Kuenstlichs und Fuertrefflichs Kochbuch of 1559. 72 Peasant Dumplings (Bauren knödlein) Take pepper, and a good part of onions … Continue reading
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Buccaneer Cuisine: Breaded Palm Grubs
While working on my book on the food of the buccaneers, I came across this beautiful example of seventeenth-century fusion cuisine from the works of Jean Baptiste Labat: “I was made to eat vers de palmiste, an insect that is … Continue reading
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Experiment: Bread Dumplings
More of our peasant food experiments. These recipes are two previously posted varieties of bread dumplings from the Oeconomia ruralis et domestica: (marginalia: To make dumplings in another way) Or take white bread (Semmel), lay them in water and let … Continue reading
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Veal Dumplings and Onion Garlic Sauce
The second entry from our peasant recipe experiment features veal dumplings and a highly speculative onion sauce. The dumpling recipe, which already featured here, is from the Oeconomia and is actually not associated with peasants except through the company it … Continue reading
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Peasant Food Experiments: Coler’s Cabbage Cake
I am grateful to a friend of mine for hosting another of our recipe testing sessions on Good Friday this year. The focus this time was one “peasant food”. It probably needs saying that this is not what most peasants … Continue reading
Dried Pear Puree from the Innsbruck MS
Another short recipe, I’m tired onight. This one is interesting because of how widespread it is: 15 If you would make a puree of dried pears (klotzenpirn), wash them in warm water, cut off the stalks and the cores, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 15th century, Cod Pal Germ 551, Innsbruck MS, Innsbrucker Rezeptbuch, Königsberg MS, parallel, preservation
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Apple and Pear Purees from the Innsbruck MS
A brief recipe today, it’s been a long day: 13 If you would make a roasted (gepratenes) apple puree, brown (pren…ab) the apples in fat and chop them, spice them, add honey, and then prepare it in a pan so … Continue reading
Fruit Purees from the Innsbruck MS
Continuing the entries from the Innsbrucker Rezeptbuch (Cod. Vind. 5486), today’s collection is a series of fruit puree recipes. Again, they are nothing special, but their grouping shows the systematic approach of the whole text: 7 If you would make … Continue reading
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Hard Custards from the Innsbrucker Rezeptbuch
Today, I am starting a new source for translated recipes: The Innsbrucker Rezeptbuch (Cod. Vind. 5486). The medical issues are not letting up (fortunately, I am healthy now, but not everyone in my family is), so I ask your forbearance … Continue reading