Tag Archives: medicinal

Preserving Cowberries

Posted on 19 January 2026 by carlton_bach

Just a quick one today: Staindl uses cowberries (aka lingonberries, Vaccinium vitis-idaea) in a preserve and a sauce. This is the preserve: To preserve cowberries (Paysselbeer, Vaccinium vitis-idaea) ccxxvii) Break the berries off the stalks and pull off the khondel … Continue reading →

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Golden Water – Spice Liquor

Posted on 18 January 2026 by carlton_bach

A short recipe today, and one not strictly culinary. Staindl gives instructions how to distill a spice-flavoured schnaps he calls Güldin wasser: Golden water ccxlviii) Item take one kandel of Malmasier (malmsey wine) or muscatel wine and one quarter more … Continue reading →

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Rose Sugar and Rose Honey

Posted on 5 January 2026 by carlton_bach

I’ve been quite ill, but am getting better again. To aid my recovery and ease my sore throat, some medicinal preparations: To make rose juice ccxxviii) Cut roses as for Rosat (rose sugar), pound them very small and press out … Continue reading →

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Boiled Sweets

Posted on 28 December 2025 by carlton_bach

They are called ‘strengthening little cakes’, but they’re just flavoured sugar and this is basically what it – apologies – boils down to. To make strengthening cakes (Krafft zaeltlin) ccxxv) Take fine sugar and pound it small. Take good rosewater … Continue reading →

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Rosewater Syrup for the Sick

Posted on 27 December 2025 by carlton_bach

Christmas is over, and I hope to have a little more time to dedicate to my recipe translation. Today, it’s just a brief one from book seven of Staindl’s cookbook. Item to make Lupp ccxxiiii) Make it this way: Take … Continue reading →

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Two Lying-In Dishes

Posted on 3 July 2025 by carlton_bach

We are back with Balthasar Staindl’s 1547 cookbook, and still in the chapter on egg and dairy dishes. To make a boiled koch lxxi) Take eggs, three or four or five, stir them well, mix a little milk into it, … Continue reading →

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Beer Against Tiredness from Traveling

Posted on 20 April 2023 by carlton_bach

I am still on the train back home from an amazing two days at a culinary history event hosted by the Instytut Polski in Düsseldorf where I was privileged to present a historic recipe, meet some leading culinary history researchers, … Continue reading →

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The Physician’s Speech from Wittenwiler’s Ring

Posted on 11 March 2023 by carlton_bach

Another source! Distracting things going on, so I may again miss out on a few postings. Have a lengthy instruction on healthy living from Wittenweiler’s early fifteenth-century poem Der Ring to make up for the disappointment: Straubel answered like a … Continue reading →

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Rose (and Flower) Sugar

Posted on 10 February 2023 by carlton_bach

I expect to be back at my computer late tonight, if at all. Thus, here is an early and short recipe from the Kuenstlichs und Fuertrefflichs Kochbuch: 80 To Prepare Rose Sugar or other Sugar Take three Lot of sugar … Continue reading →

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Rose Oil according to Meister Eberhard

Posted on 4 September 2022 by carlton_bach

The Meister Eberhard manuscript ends with a collection of medicinal oils. Again, I will not post all of them here, but this is the first and, to my mind, the most interesting as well as practical. <<R101>> Item also mach … Continue reading →

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