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A Grape Juice Tart Experiment

This Sunday, we had a meeting with local people from my medieval club to craft, sociaslise, and talk about our various projects. For me, it was an opportunity to try out a few recipes for an appreciative audience. Most were … Continue reading

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Two More Pastry Crust Recipes

This is a pretty exciting find from Philippine Welser’s recipe collection: 58 How you should make pastry coffins (bastetten hefen) Take half fine flour and half second flour (nach mel, flour of lesser quality), break 2 eggs into it and … Continue reading

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Crawfish Tart

My apologies, there is again only time for a short recipe today. I might as well give up hope of returning to doing them daily. From the recipe collection of Philippine Welser: 57 If you want to make a crawfish … Continue reading

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Grape Juice Tart

Here is another interesting recipe from Philippine Welser’s collection: 56 To make a wine tart of grapes (wein draubenn) Take the berries of the grapes and a little flour, melted butter, sugar, and cinnamon. Press it through (a sieve) together … Continue reading

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Franzbrötchen

Today, my son and I visited his grandmother and she had bought Schoko-Quarkbrötchen (a nice, if slightly heavy kind of bun with chocolate flakes baked into it). My son, though, asked for a Franzbrötchen. This above all marks him out … Continue reading

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Another Plum Tart

I suspect this recipe in Philippine Welser’s collection, unlike the previous one, is meant for dried plums: 47 If you want to make a plum (gwestenn) tart Take plums and wash them cleanly in much water. Put them in a … Continue reading

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Sour Cherry Tarts

A bit after the first recipe for sour cherry tart, Philippine Welser’s recipe collection gives two more: 36 If you want to make a sour cherry tart Prepare a bottom as for other tarts. When it is finished, take a … Continue reading

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Walnut Cheese Stuffing Experiment

I had the time to try out something I came across a while ago. A half sentence in the Marvel of Milan, a praise poem by Bonvesin de la Riva on the extensive virtues of the city, describes an interesting … Continue reading

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Two Recipes for Green Tart

I love green tart, and these two recipes from the collection of Philippine Welser are interesting: 51 If you want to make a tart of greens (krautt dortten) Take on your table sage leaves, eight marjoram sprigs, a handful of … Continue reading

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A Sage-Flavoured Green Custard

It is called a “tart” in Philippine Welser’s recipe collection, but really it isn’t. I need to try this. 50 If you want to make a sage tart Take 2 bunches of sage and two bunches of parsley greens and … Continue reading

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