Tag Archives: colours

Striped Almond Milk Jelly

Posted on 15 May 2025 by carlton_bach

I will likely be away over the weekend and may not have time to post any recipes, so for today, have a longer one from the 1547 Künstlichs und Nutzlichs Kochbuch. Balthasar Staindl plays with food in a grand tradition: … Continue reading →

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A Multicoloured Confection

Posted on 23 April 2025 by carlton_bach

After Monday’s post about colours, today it’s the recipe that uses them all. Also from the Dorotheenkloster MS: 210 A strange baked/fried dish (gepachenes) For this, you must have all the colours. You must prepare a filling from each colour. … Continue reading →

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Making Food Colours

Posted on 21 April 2025 by carlton_bach

It has been a week without posts for which I apologise. I was rather busy. Today, finally, I am back at my desk with a new entry from the Dorotheenkloster MS: 208 Of all kinds of fritters For fritters, you … Continue reading →

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Violet Mues

Posted on 13 February 2025 by carlton_bach

Roses are red, violets are – cooked with mushrooms? From the Dorotheenkloster MS: 136 A mues of violets Take thick almond milk mixed well with rice flour and add enough fat to it. Colour it with violet flowers. That is … Continue reading →

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“Brown Cloth” from de Rontzier

Posted on 14 February 2023 by carlton_bach

Towards the end of his chapter on jellies, Franz de Rontzier gives instructions that must have made complete sense to his contemporaries: If you would make Brauntuch (lit: brown cloth) that are used for jelly, pound black cherries in a … Continue reading →

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Variations on a fritter from the Kuchenmaistrey

Posted on 12 December 2021 by carlton_bach

These are so tempting… playing with food. 3. xxii. Item in another way that is called flappy fritters (lappenküchlein) without parsley and wine. Make a stiff dough with eggs and wine, the third part is milk. Draw it out on … Continue reading →

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Fishy rice pudding and more colouring from the Kuchenmaistrey

Posted on 17 November 2021 by carlton_bach

It’s expensive, but it’s still mush 1. xxxv. Item a good side dish (gemüß) of almonds and fish. Take out the innards and clean it and chop it well, (but) be careful of the gall. Take the flesh of the … Continue reading →

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Blue rice pudding from the Kuchenmaistrey

Posted on 15 November 2021 by carlton_bach

It’s blue 1.xxxiii. Item a blue spoon dish (muß) make thus from almonds and of rice. Pound cornflowers well with water, press them through a cloth and keep that. Pound almonds in the same water and force it through the … Continue reading →

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Fritters of three colours from Cod Pal Germ 551

Posted on 2 September 2021 by carlton_bach

61 A fritter of three colours So that one is green and the other white and the third yellow. Take eggs and set the whites aside and add parsley to it. Then take a pan and heat it with fat … Continue reading →

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