Tag Archives: Lent

“Of Jerusalem”

Travelling, I only have a short recipe for you today. It’s from the Mondseer Kochbuch: 56 To prepare a good Lenten spoon dish (vasten muos) Take basses and thick almond milk and put sugar on it. This is to be … Continue reading

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Three Krapfen Fillings

I’m travelling again and just learned about sweet cabbage pies, but for today, all I have is three fillings for krapfen from the Mondseer Kochbuch: 53 To prepare good fritters (krapfen) when you fast Take nuts and pound them in … Continue reading

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Fish with Almond Milk

The Mondseer Kochbuch has a section around the middle where a number of very similar recipes are grouped together. It looks as though someone drew on several related sources. These are all about fish with almond milk: 49 How to … Continue reading

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Salmon Pastries

Another nice recipe from the Mondseer Kochbuch: 17 How to fry salmon Take a salmon and scrape off its scales. Split it and cut it to pieces. Chop parsley and sage, take pounded ginger, pepper, and anise. Salt it in … Continue reading

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Egg Loaf Roast from the Innsbruck MS

Another fake meat dish, this one made from eggs: 52 If you would make a roast of eggs, beat the eggs in a bowl, season them, salt them, and pour them into a bag. Let them boil in that so … Continue reading

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Almond cheeses from the Innsbruck MS

I am very glad to say that I can type again (though carefully) and thus will resume my semi-regular recipe postings. For today, a few short and mildly confusing ones for illusion food: 44 If you would make a curd … Continue reading

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Rumpolt on cooking Plateissen

I will be quite busy the coming week and do not expect to be posting much, so here is a set of recipes from Rumpolt to keep you busy. They are for the dried flatfish that were known and widely … Continue reading

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Fake Hard-Boiled Eggs

From the Kuenstlichs und Fuertrefflichs Kochbuch, another recipe for fake eggs. 63 Hard-Boiled Eggs with Almonds Take blanched almond kernels, grind them small, and colour yellow as much as is required for the yolk. Take eggshells and pour out (thus… … Continue reading

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May Dish for Lent

Another recipe from the Kuenstlichs und Furetrefflichs Kochbuch: 8 A different May spoon dish (Mayen müß) Item rice, boil that in milk that is thick or take almond milk if it is nicely blue. Blanch almonds, and take as much … Continue reading

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Fake Chopped Meat and Cracklings for Lent

Another two recipes from Cgm 384 II, these are illusion foods for meatless days. 58 A chopped dish (gehäckt) in Lent Make a gehäkt in Lent of chopped almonds. Colour part of them and leave the other part white, and … Continue reading

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