Monthly Archives: July 2024

Quick Camp Cooking

After a weekend away from home and two very intense days at work, I can finally return to posting things. Today, it will be a short account of what I cooked on Saturday. The event I went to was run … Continue reading

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A Meat Fladen Experiment

Last weekend, I decided to try out a recipe I’d been playing with for a while: The meat fladen from the Guoter Spise tradition. Specifically, I started out with this recipe from the Mondseer Kochbuch: 82 A fladen of meat, … Continue reading

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Fried Apple Slices

Two very similar recipes from Philippine Welser’s collection: 133 To fry risen (hoch) apples and sage leaves Take good flour and put in cold water, stir it around a lot and then beat it well. Then beat eggs into it … Continue reading

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Fried Gourd

Just a short recipe today, again from Philippine Welser’s recipe collection: 129 If you want to fry pumpkin Cut the pumpkin crosswise (braydt), parboil it, and then lay the slices out on a board until they are drained (versechnet). Then … Continue reading

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Almond-Stuffed Cookies

Admittedly, they are not exactly cookies, but the recipe is strikingly modern compared to most of the others. From the recipe collection of Philippine Welser: 127 To bake pretty stritzela of almonds Take a vierdung of almonds to make about … Continue reading

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Several Krapfen Recipes

There are a number of recipes for Krapfen of various kinds in the recipe collection of Philippine Welser. As we have seen, the term could stretch to something much like modern Maultaschen or cheese hand pies, but the typical kind … Continue reading

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Blessings for Birds

Here is finally more of the Benedictiones ad Mensas. This is the section on birds: 73 Bless, o Christ king, the birds that are equal to fish Piscibus ęquipares benedic rex Christe volucres 74 May the cross bless this bird … Continue reading

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Cheese Pockets

I know I am late in posting more of the Benedictiones, but there is too much going on at the moment. Here is a brief and simple recipe from Philippine Welser’s collection, though: 123 If you want to fry krapfen … Continue reading

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More Blessings for Fishes

Yet more from the 11th-century Benedictiones ad Mensas, completing the list of fish: 57 May a piece of such a large fish among our foods be blessed Pars tanti piscis nostris benedicta sit ęscis 58 May God not permit this … Continue reading

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Blessings for Fishes

More from the 11th century Benedictiones ad Mensas: The first part of a series of blessings for fish 39 We eat these cooked fish blessed with the cross Hos pisces coctos cruce sumamus benedictos 40 Bless these fish, you, who … Continue reading

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