Tag Archives: 14th century

A Fancy Burgundian Feast

Posted on 9 October 2025 by carlton_bach

Last weekend, I had the wonderful opportunity to cook with a friend in the Netherlands who regularly hosts amazing historically inspired fancy feasts for her friends. I had the happiest memories of the last one I attended and was more … Continue reading →

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Brewing in the Fourteenth Century

Posted on 5 July 2025 by carlton_bach

Further in what I hope will be occasional translations from Konrad von Megenberg’s Yconomia, the chapter on the brewer: The thirty-seventh chapter of the brewer (praxator) The brewer of beer (praxator) is so named after the Greek word praxis which … Continue reading →

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How to be a fourteenth-century cook

Posted on 9 June 2025 by carlton_bach

I have not had much time over the past fewdays, and with whast time there was, I allowed myself to be sidetracked. As a result, there is again no recipe from Staindl’s cookbook, but instead a brief excerpt from Konrad … Continue reading →

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More Porpoise Recipes

Posted on 8 March 2025 by carlton_bach

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

Posted on 1 March 2025 by carlton_bach

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 →

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Two More Kol Reys Recipes

Posted on 16 February 2025 by carlton_bach

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 →

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Rules for Cookpots

Posted on 3 June 2024 by carlton_bach

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 →

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In Praise of the Pig

Posted on 18 May 2024 by carlton_bach

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 →

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In Praise of Sheep

Posted on 11 May 2024 by carlton_bach

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 →

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On Beards and Table Manners

Posted on 5 May 2024 by carlton_bach

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 →

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