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Tag Archives: experiment
A Salernitan Meal
We had this meal on Easter Saturday, so it is about time I got around to posting it. Dishes mostly based on descriptions in de diaetis, the 11th-century Latin text from Salerno. Our main dish was chicken slowly cooked with … Continue reading
Herb Tart (with lots of sage)
There is only time for a quick recipe today, so I will pick up a loose end from the crafting meeting: The green tart from the recipe collection of Philippine Welser. 52 If you want to make a tart of … Continue reading
Lenten Dessert
We followed the fish feast on Good Friday with a dessert of illusion foods: Pastries, bratwurst sausages, and porridge topped with fried lardons. All of them fit for Lent. The pastries are easiest: You simply fill them with something other … Continue reading
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Tagged 15th century, 16th century, Cgm 384, experiment, Königsberg MS, Lent, Mondseer Kochbuch
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The Good Friday Fish Feast
A friend was able to source fresh trout for our gathering at the easter weekend, so I could finally try out some of my fish recipes on my unsuspecting fellow medievalists. The result was a Lenten spread that was both … Continue reading
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Tagged 15th century, 16th century, Anna Wecker, experiment, kuchenmaistrey, Lent, Meister Hans
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Siculo-Norman Snack Beans
I am still not finished writing up the fish feast we had on Good Friday, but here is a small thing I tried out on Saturday with our Sicilian Norman supper. It is based on a passage in Isaac Iudaeus … Continue reading
More on Meat Pastries
I am badly in arrears and promise to write up what I did over the Easter weekend, but there are still recipes and experiences from the Palm Sunday open. The main course of our meal that day were two meat … Continue reading
A Grape Juice Tart Experiment
This Sunday, we had a meeting with local people from my medieval club to craft, sociaslise, and talk about our various projects. For me, it was an opportunity to try out a few recipes for an appreciative audience. Most were … Continue reading
Two More Pastry Crust Recipes
This is a pretty exciting find from Philippine Welser’s recipe collection: 58 How you should make pastry coffins (bastetten hefen) Take half fine flour and half second flour (nach mel, flour of lesser quality), break 2 eggs into it and … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th century, experiment, parallel, Philippine Welser, Sabina Welser
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Franzbrötchen
Today, my son and I visited his grandmother and she had bought Schoko-Quarkbrötchen (a nice, if slightly heavy kind of bun with chocolate flakes baked into it). My son, though, asked for a Franzbrötchen. This above all marks him out … Continue reading
Walnut Cheese Stuffing Experiment
I had the time to try out something I came across a while ago. A half sentence in the Marvel of Milan, a praise poem by Bonvesin de la Riva on the extensive virtues of the city, describes an interesting … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th century, Bonvesin de la Riva de magnalibus, experiment
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