Monthly Archives: December 2025

Barley Porridge for Hungover Breakfast

Posted on 30 December 2025 by carlton_bach

I will be away from home over the New Year, so this will be the last recipe for 2025. It comes from the Oeconomia ruralis et domestica by Johannes Coler and may be suitable for the festive days ahead: To … Continue reading →

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Easter Cakes

Posted on 29 December 2025 by carlton_bach

These are two recipes for Easter cakes. The first one I already posted about. The second looks like a direct ancestor of German cheesecake, Käsekuchen: How to bake Preßmetzen at Easter (ccxxii, number missing) Prepare a good milk egg cheese … Continue reading →

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Boiled Sweets

Posted on 28 December 2025 by carlton_bach

They are called ‘strengthening little cakes’, but they’re just flavoured sugar and this is basically what it – apologies – boils down to. To make strengthening cakes (Krafft zaeltlin) ccxxv) Take fine sugar and pound it small. Take good rosewater … Continue reading →

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Rosewater Syrup for the Sick

Posted on 27 December 2025 by carlton_bach

Christmas is over, and I hope to have a little more time to dedicate to my recipe translation. Today, it’s just a brief one from book seven of Staindl’s cookbook. Item to make Lupp ccxxiiii) Make it this way: Take … Continue reading →

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Syrup Kisses for Postwar Christmas

Posted on 21 December 2025 by carlton_bach

For the first time this month, I had a day to myself, and it was spent mostly Christmas baking. Like every year, I added one untested recipe to my usual favourites. This year, it was a highly economical version of … Continue reading →

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Spice Wafers

Posted on 20 December 2025 by carlton_bach

Finally, some breathing space and another quick recipe from the end of book five of Staindl’s cookbook: Filled wafers, also called spread-on (auffgestrichens) ones cxcii) Take wafers and cut them into squares as long as a hand. Then take a … Continue reading →

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Capon Soup with Grated Cheese

Posted on 18 December 2025 by carlton_bach

Life has not let up much, but I have a brief recipe today. A capon soup with cheese clxxxix) Boil the capon in its own broth. Pour the broth onto toasted semel slices. Take good Wendish cheese or some other … Continue reading →

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Trying the Chicken in Wine-Lemon Sauce

Posted on 14 December 2025 by carlton_bach

The crazy density of the past week is slowly receding in the rear view mirror, and today I actually had the chance to try out a recipe from my recent batch: Staindl’s stewed chicken. To stew (einzudempffen) young hens clxxii) … Continue reading →

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A Variation on Spießkuchen

Posted on 7 December 2025 by carlton_bach

Tonight, I have another playful and quite demanding recipe, a variation on the theme of Spießkuchen, but richer and more decorative: A courtly dish called the circle/circlet (der raiff) cxcii) Serve it as a dish (ain richt, i.e. as part … Continue reading →

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Stewing Chicken in Sauce

Posted on 4 December 2025 by carlton_bach

Apologies for the long interval between posts. It is a rather intense week, and I do not expect things to let up appreciably before Christmas. So tonight, I must leave it at a brief recipe again. How to stew chickens: … Continue reading →

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