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A Wreath of Many Colours
An edible wreath from the Innsbruck MS: 79 If you would prepare a wreath of four colours, make sheets of eggs. (Make) white ones from egg white, yellow with yolks, green with (herb) juice and egg white, and black also … Continue reading
A Jelly in Four Colours
Again, from the Innsbruck MS: 75 If you would make a jelly (sultz) of four colours, take calves’ feet or sheep’s feet and boil them until the bones fall out, and then make the sultz with that. The green colour … Continue reading
Egg-Filled Fritters
A recipe from the Innsbruck MS: 77 If you would make filled dough sheets, make the sheets very thin with a rolling pin. Then take eggs and boil them hard, chop them, and prepare them as if you wanted to … Continue reading
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Hemp Milk Cooking
Another interesting set of recipes from the Innsbruck MS: 81 If you would prepare a soup of hemp, take raw hemp and pound it well. Then pass it through. If you wish, boil it in a pan and cause it … Continue reading
Another Parallel for Gespott in May
The recipe is also in the Innsbruck MS: 76 If you would make a gespot in May, take a flowing cheese and slice it into a courtly serving dish (hoff schüssel) (in pieces) larger than a finger. Break eggs into … Continue reading
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Gefilte Chicken
I apologise for missing out another day. I appear to have caught a rather unpleasant virus. For today, here is an interesting recipe from the Innsbruck MS: 74 If you would make a filled chicken, remove its skin so that … Continue reading
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Two Complicated Fritters from the Innsbruck MS
I am not entirely sure how these work, but they are fascinating: 68 If you would make filled sheets of eggs, take eggs and beat the whites separately. Take a little fat into a pan, only enough to cover the … Continue reading
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