Monthly Archives: May 2023

Chicken in a Glass

The Innsbruck MS also contains the following recipe: 101 If you would make a boiled chicken in a glass, pluck the chicken and take off its skin. Leave on the feet and the neck, and chop the rest of the … Continue reading

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All About Peas, Part Two

Continuing the Innsbruck MS’s pea recipes: 93 If you would make peas in jelly (gesultz arbais), also prepare them in this manner and boil them in honey, that way they turn out thick. Then cut them into slices, lay them … Continue reading

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All About Peas, Part One

The Innsbruck MS has a lot of recipes for peas. 86 If you would prepare Bohemian (pehaymisch) peas, boil the peas in lye (kaltgüzz) and when they shed their skins, pour the lye and the peas into a small vessel … Continue reading

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Faking Venison from Beef

Another recipe from the Innsbruck MS: 98 If you would make venison out of beef, take roastable (pratig) (meat) and chop it raw, add eggs, and shape long balls the size of a piece of meat. Let them boil in … Continue reading

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Food Colour Recipes from the Innsbruck MS

I don’t have much time to write this weekends, so here are two recipes for food colour – blue and white – that can stand without much commentary: 141 If you would prepare coloured foods, be it purees or fritters, … Continue reading

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A Wreath of Many Colours

An edible wreath from the Innsbruck MS: 79 If you would prepare a wreath of four colours, make sheets of eggs. (Make) white ones from egg white, yellow with yolks, green with (herb) juice and egg white, and black also … Continue reading

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A Jelly in Four Colours

Again, from the Innsbruck MS: 75 If you would make a jelly (sultz) of four colours, take calves’ feet or sheep’s feet and boil them until the bones fall out, and then make the sultz with that. The green colour … Continue reading

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Egg-Filled Fritters

A recipe from the Innsbruck MS: 77 If you would make filled dough sheets, make the sheets very thin with a rolling pin. Then take eggs and boil them hard, chop them, and prepare them as if you wanted to … Continue reading

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Hemp Milk Cooking

Another interesting set of recipes from the Innsbruck MS: 81 If you would prepare a soup of hemp, take raw hemp and pound it well. Then pass it through. If you wish, boil it in a pan and cause it … Continue reading

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Another Parallel for Gespott in May

The recipe is also in the Innsbruck MS: 76 If you would make a gespot in May, take a flowing cheese and slice it into a courtly serving dish (hoff schüssel) (in pieces) larger than a finger. Break eggs into … Continue reading

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