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More Porpoise Recipes
A propos of yesterday’s post of how to cook porpoises, these are more practical instructions from Maino de Maineri’s opusculum de saporibus: …About fish one must know that the grosser of flesh, the harder to digest and of greater superfluity … Continue reading
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More Blanc Manger
If there is one dish no medieval recipe collection can be without, it seems to be blanc manger, chicken breast cooked with almond milk and rice. The Dorotheenkloster MS has three such recipes: 126 A courtly gmüs of old chickens … Continue reading
Two More Kol Reys Recipes
It is just a short post today – and probably none until Wednesday – but before I give you two more recipes, a brief note: A recipe in the Munich Cgm 384 manuscript (II.13) that I thought described a pancake … Continue reading
Rules for Cookpots
Just a short post today, but this is one of the little things that I so enjoy finding. I was writing about the massive grapen cookpots, three-legged bronze vessels that stood in the embers of the fire, at the kitchen … Continue reading
In Praise of the Pig
The König vom Odenwald is finished, but I will still need to do some work on the final edit and think about what to do with it. Meanwhile, here is another poem in praise of the pig: IX This is … Continue reading
In Praise of Sheep
Today, it’s another of the König vom Odenwald’s poems: VI This is a poem of sheepNobody shall criticise it muchI have invented a poemA lady has brought me to do itShe has a noble husbandI shall not name her unless … Continue reading
On Beards and Table Manners
This poem by the König vom Odenwald has got to be the longest-winded lesson in table manners I have ever seen. VII Of the long beards of peoplethat they wear nowadays for ten reasonsHear of the rare talesThat I will … Continue reading
On Bathing
This is not really culinary content, but too interesting not to share. The König vom Odenwald also wrote a short poem about why people bathe: IV This is about bathingWhich never hurt anyoneFrom the treasure of my artI must write … Continue reading
In Praise of Chickens
My apologies – again – for not writing anything in a week. It has been a very busy week, much of it good, but I have something big in store for Easter. Not only was I able to spend the … Continue reading
In Praise of the Cow
An extra for today: A fourteenth-century paean to domestic bovines. Here begins the praise of the cow Many men praise the love of their heart So must I quietly and loudly Bemoan that men toll bells For those without virtue. … Continue reading