Monthly Archives: August 2025

Munich 1600 – Fantasies of Magical Cannibalism

Posted on 29 August 2025 by carlton_bach

CW: Extreme violence to children I don’t normally touch on subjects that deserve a content warning, but while I was doing some reading into the diet of the poor in 15th and 16th-century Germany, I stumbled on some things that … Continue reading →

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Salads in Rumpolt and before

Posted on 27 August 2025 by carlton_bach

A friend of mine in the United States was asked to prepare a German-themed feast in the medieval club we are both in, and she asked me for advice. I like to encourage that kind of thing – I enjoy … Continue reading →

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Birthday Cake Studies

Posted on 25 August 2025 by carlton_bach

I’m breaking the routine of sixteenth-century fish recipes for a random rabbit hole. I was celebrating my birthday in the middle of bramble season and wanted to do something with that, so I decided to make a bramble streusel cake. … Continue reading →

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More Fish Sausages

Posted on 22 August 2025 by carlton_bach

Following yesterday’s recipe for fish sausage in a gut casing, this is the other one from Balthasar Staindl’s 1547 cookbook. It goes with black sauce. To make white sausages another way cxvii) Chop the fish flesh small, take the crumb … Continue reading →

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Fish Sausages

Posted on 21 August 2025 by carlton_bach

Balthasar Staindl’s 1547 cookbook has two recipes for sausages made of fish. One is served in a yellow sauce, the other in a black one. This is the one that goes with yellow sauce: Dumplings and sausages of fish cxvi) … Continue reading →

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Haithabu, Starigrad, and How We Do Things

Posted on 19 August 2025 by carlton_bach

One thing that kept me so busy these past days was that I had the chance to meet very good friends to go to a number of museums in the wider neighbourhood. The special exhibition on the end of the … Continue reading →

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Polish Sauce for Fish

Posted on 17 August 2025 by carlton_bach

I am back from a fascinating trip to no fewer than three museums with wonderful friends, and today, while I’m sorting through my new impressions, another recipe for fish from Balthasar Staindl: Polish sauce cix) Item how to make fish … Continue reading →

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Staindl’s Fish in Galantine

Posted on 14 August 2025 by carlton_bach

I will be off to a really interesting exhibition over the long weekend, but before that, I wanted to drop Balthasar Staindl’s instructions for cooking fish in galantine. They are rather exhaustive. To make fish in galantine (gsulzte fisch) cx) … Continue reading →

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Fruit Sauces for Fish

Posted on 13 August 2025 by carlton_bach

Continuing Balthasar Staindl‘s chapter on fish recipes, here are two more recipes, one using the newly fashionable lemon: To prepare the back (Grad) of a Danube salmon or another large fish with sauce cv) Take good wine, half sweet, or … Continue reading →

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Yellow Sauce for Fish

Posted on 11 August 2025 by carlton_bach

After yesterday’s varieties of black sauce, here is the other ubiquitous condiment for fish: Yellow sauce. Black or yellow sauce to serve with fish ciiii) First, you boil the fish nicely with salt. Then you drain it (the cooking liquid) … Continue reading →

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