Monthly Archives: April 2025

Making Food Colours

Posted on 21 April 2025 by carlton_bach

It has been a week without posts for which I apologise. I was rather busy. Today, finally, I am back at my desk with a new entry from the Dorotheenkloster MS: 208 Of all kinds of fritters For fritters, you … Continue reading →

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Colourful Fritters

Posted on 14 April 2025 by carlton_bach

I’m back from my trip to the seaside, but quite exhausted and looking forward to another outing tomorrow. tonight, I will have to just drop you a random recipe for colourful fritters from the Dorotheenkloster MS: 211 A different fritter … Continue reading →

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Live Birds in a Pie

Posted on 9 April 2025 by carlton_bach

Everyone knows the nursery rhyme and we all must have wondered if they really did that. It appears they did. This recipe from the Dorotheenkloster gives detailed instructions for making a pie that is both edible and will release live … Continue reading →

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Bent Fritters and a Scribal Error

Posted on 8 April 2025 by carlton_bach

The Dorotheenkloster MS includes a version of a very popular recipe for cheese fritters, with a twist: 214 For crooked fritters Grate good cheese and take half as much flour, and break eggs into it so it can be rolled … Continue reading →

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Remedying Greasy Aspic

Posted on 6 April 2025 by carlton_bach

Aspics were becoming very popular in the fifteenth century. Here is a way of dealing with one that turned out greasy: 197 A galantine (sulz) of chickens Take galantine of chickens. Take young chickens and boil them in vinegar. You … Continue reading →

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Lacing Points in Aspic

Posted on 3 April 2025 by carlton_bach

Though today’s recipe looks quite odd, it is not, in fact, an April Fool‘s joke. Rather, it seems to be an example of robust creative culinary humour, an illustration of ‘playing with food’. 190 A galantine of deer(-skin) laces Take … Continue reading →

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An Interesting Seasonal Fish Recipe

Posted on 1 April 2025 by carlton_bach

To mark the occasion of today, I would like to take some time away from the Dorotheenkloster MS to present an addition to the Bologna MS of the liber de ferculis malis. I already referred to the gloss in the … Continue reading →

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