Monthly Archives: May 2025

Coloured Rice Pudding in Almond Milk

As promised, here is the first recipe from my next project, the 1547 Kuenstlichs und Nutzlichs Kochbuch by Balthasar Staindl. It is fairly conventional: Gerendte Milk Take rice and pound it fine, strain it through a sieve, then take almond … Continue reading

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Parboiling Meat in Summer

My apologies for the long silence. I had planned to post a new recipe Sunday, but was laid low by a nasty GI infection that made it hard to write anything, least of all anything about food. Today, I’ll be … Continue reading

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Translation Complete: Philippine Welser

A Happy Beltane and First of May to all! To properly honour the occasion, I finally set aside the time to edit and clean up the last source translation I finished: The 1550 recipebook of the Augsburg patrician and later … Continue reading

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