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A Filled Meat Loaf Roast
The Innsbruck MS can get very playful at times: 64 If you wish to make a hollow roast (holpraten) of meat, chop the meat small and break eggs into it. Salt it and season it and add a little flour. … Continue reading
Rice Made from Eggs
Another illusion food from the Innsbruck MS. This one really makes no practical sense at all. 57 If you would make rice out of eggs, boil the eggs hard and then take the hard egg (daz hert) and chop it … Continue reading
Another May Cake
An interesting recipe I found in the Innsbruck MS: 57 If you would make a May Cake (mauschen chuechen), take five eggs or seven and beat them well, and add three full spoons of milk. Heat a mortar and heat … Continue reading
Egg Loaf Roast from the Innsbruck MS
Another fake meat dish, this one made from eggs: 52 If you would make a roast of eggs, beat the eggs in a bowl, season them, salt them, and pour them into a bag. Let them boil in that so … Continue reading
Filled Fish from the Innsbruck MS
I have always argued gefilte fish were more geographically than religiously specific, and here we go: 50 If you would make a filled fish (gefulten visch), detach the skin starting from the tail and take out the flesh, and boil … Continue reading
An Odd Recipe from the Innsbruck MS
It is for pasteten, but what these are is quite unclear: 49 If you would make a pastry (pasteten), make a dough of eggs as though you wanted to make hare’s ears (hasenorel, a type of fritter). Then roast that … Continue reading
Roe Deer Head from the Innsbruck MS
A short but complex recipe today, again from the Innsbruck MS: 48 If you would prepare a dish from the head of a roe deer, boil it so that meat falls off it and chop that. Prepare chopped meat with … Continue reading
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Almond cheeses from the Innsbruck MS
I am very glad to say that I can type again (though carefully) and thus will resume my semi-regular recipe postings. For today, a few short and mildly confusing ones for illusion food: 44 If you would make a curd … Continue reading
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Brawn from the Innsbruck MS
The Innsbruck MS also includes a recipe for pressed pig’s head, and again, it involves gelbwurtz: 43 If you would make a pressed pig’s head, singe the head clean and boil it so that the meat falls off it. And … Continue reading
Another Antler Recipe
I am still pressed for time, so no big writeup today. But I found this in the Innsbruck MS and it ties right back into another rabbit hole I fell down a while ago: 42 If you would make a … Continue reading