Tag Archives: 10th century

Porridge-Eating Pagans – Feeding the Revolution XXIII

Posted on 27 May 2026 by carlton_bach

As you enter rural Northeastern Germany, you will quickly notice the way place names change. If you know your way around languages, you can also spot strange words in the local dialects. Village traditions are different. What you are seeing … Continue reading →

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A Fish Cooked Three Ways from Meister Eberhard

Posted on 16 August 2022 by carlton_bach

Since a good chunk of Meister Eberhard is just a repeat of Cod Pal Germ 551, I will not post each and every parallel. You can find them when I post the entire text. They are, from here on out: … Continue reading →

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A Viking-Age Experiment – Sailor’s Beans

Posted on 31 July 2022 by carlton_bach

Again, there are no surviving recipes from 9th-11th century Scandinavia. This is a speculative idea that I wanted to try, and today did. The result was mixed. The combination is supposed to represent foods that a ship’s crew might have … Continue reading →

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Speculative Viking Feasting (Part Three)

Posted on 12 May 2022 by carlton_bach

This is the last instalment of posts on last weekend’s Viking meal, including a very successful, if highly speculative dish and a delicious failure. You can find the other dishes here and here. And as I pointed out earlier: Since … Continue reading →

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Speculative Viking Feasting (Part Two)

Posted on 11 May 2022 by carlton_bach

Part two of our speculative Viking party food. As I stated in part one: Since we have no surviving recipes, I decided to go with a number of dishes based speculatively on ingredients and kitchen tools available in tenth- and … Continue reading →

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Speculative Viking Feasting (Part One)

Posted on 10 May 2022 by carlton_bach

This weekend, I visited some fellow members of the SCA in South Germany for a round of historical cooking. The theme was ‘Vikings’, and since we have no surviving recipes, I decided to go with a number of dishes based … Continue reading →

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