Tag Archives: Cgm 384

Kroseier Again

Posted on 17 September 2026 by carlton_bach

Along with the roasted eggs we looked at already, there is another recipe for re-filled eggshells in the Solothurn S 392 manuscript, and it has a very familiar name: B39 Item if you want to make kross ayer, boil eggs … Continue reading →

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Filled Eggs: A Common Recipe

Posted on 15 September 2026 by carlton_bach

When I looked at the filled egg recipe in Solothurn S 392 on Sunday, I wrote that there are numerous parallels. Today; I want to start looking at them. The Solothurn recipe that started me on this reads: B40 Item … Continue reading →

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Fritters with Parallels

Posted on 8 September 2026 by carlton_bach

Here is another recipe from the Solothurn S 392 manuscript with parallels in several other sources that are not otherwise closely related: B23 Krapfen (filled fritters) in Lent Take nuts and figs and pound them small together, spice it, and … Continue reading →

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The Cold Shoulder

Posted on 21 November 2025 by carlton_bach

It has been one hell of a week. I’ve not been meaning to neglect my readership, but in any case, here is an apposite recipe from Balthasar Staindl: Sheep shoulder in a good sauce clxx) Take the shoulder of a … Continue reading →

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Staindl’s Sausages

Posted on 6 November 2025 by carlton_bach

In German, we say “das ist mir Wurst“, it is sausage to me, to mean that we do not care about something. These are sausage to Balthasar Staindl, though we would not necessarily call all of these dishes Wurst today: … Continue reading →

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A Garbled Recipe

Posted on 24 April 2025 by carlton_bach

I am headed out to a medieval club event this weekend and have time, so it is just a brief recipe today. The Dorotheenkloster MS includes this gem: 213 For fritters in Lent Pound nut kernels and figs together in … Continue reading →

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Bent Fritters and a Scribal Error

Posted on 8 April 2025 by carlton_bach

The Dorotheenkloster MS includes a version of a very popular recipe for cheese fritters, with a twist: 214 For crooked fritters Grate good cheese and take half as much flour, and break eggs into it so it can be rolled … 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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Leeks in Almond Milk

Posted on 28 January 2025 by carlton_bach

A short recipe from the Dorotheenkloster MS today, but an interesting and delicious one: 92 Of leeks Take the white bulbs and (cut) them small. Lay them in cold water overnight. In the morning, take them and press them out, … Continue reading →

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Serving a Calf’s Head

Posted on 22 December 2024 by carlton_bach

Just another short recipe today. As you read through oner after the other, you convince yourself that people in medieval Germany were really like us in their tastes. And then, you come across something like this: 17 A roast calf’s … Continue reading →

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