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Tag Archives: illusion food
Almond Cheese from Cgm 384 II
A ubiquitous show dish in the German corpus: 57 Almond cheese (cziger) Take almonds and pound them very well and make a good milk with that. Pass them through with a little white bread (read wiss brottes for wins brottes) … Continue reading
Reassembled Chicken from Cgm 384 II
Another interesting piece of culinary sleight-of-hand. 51 Chickens put together (angeleten) For put-together chickens, take old hens and pick them apart lengthwise and cut off their meat (gebrätt), but see that the bones stay connected to each other. Chop the … Continue reading
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Tagged 15th century, Cgm 384, experiment, illusion food, kuchenmaistrey, Mittelniederdeutsches Kochbuch, parallel
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Fish Loaf Recipes from Cgm 384
There is an interesting, but rather crowded recipe in the collection that described how to turn fish – nothing less than the noble pike, too – into moulded show dishes: 33 Roast Pike Take pike or other large fish, remove … Continue reading
Deep-fried cherries from the Inntalkochbuch
Another recipe that proved popular for a long time and recurs in many iterations for centuries. <<55>> Pachen weichsel Fried tart cherries Make a batter with 4 eggs in water, season it with spices in hot fat (misplaced here?) and … Continue reading
An Almond Hedgehog from the Inntalkochbuch
You know that song? Anyway, ‘hedgehogs’ were a popular thing in medieval culinary display, very likely because they look cute, but are basic and thus not difficult to produce even for non-artistic cooks. The Inntalkochbuch presents a fairly pedestrian recipe … Continue reading
Lenten fried eggs from the Inntalkochbuch
Another piece of illusion food <<11>> Aier smalcz in der vassten Fried eggs during Lent Take blanched almonds, grind them up and pass it thick through a cloth with water. Boil in a pan like a mus so that it … Continue reading
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Tagged 15th century, illusion food, Inntalkochbuch, Lent, Teutsche Speißkammer
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Fake udder from the Inntalkochbuch
It is too late in the day here, a proper writeup of my Dark Ages feast will still have to wait. In the meantime, here is a showpiece from the Inntalkochbuch: <<3>> Ain gemachcz awtter gepraten von milich, wie man … Continue reading
Almond jelly from the Oeconomia
Another one of the detailed descriptions I enjoy finding so much. Just about every recipe book has a description of almond cheese, but Johannes Coler is one of the few to go into detail. To make good almond cheese (marginalia: … Continue reading
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Tagged 16th century, illusion food, Oeconomia ruralis et domestica
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One fish cooked three ways from the Kuchenmaistrey
A piece of culinary sleight of hand with a long history 1.v Item if you would make three dishes of one fish so that the fish nonetheless appears to stay whole. Cut a pike or another fish (that is) already … Continue reading
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Tagged 15th century, al Warraq, illusion food, kuchenmaistrey, Lent
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