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Apple-Onion Sauce for Roast Goose

Today, just briefly, a recipe from the Dorotheenkloster MS that resolves issues with a garbled one found in both sections of Cod Pal Germ 551: 248 A dish of a goose Take a goose, stick it on a spit, and … Continue reading

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A Garbled Recipe

I am headed out to a medieval club event this weekend and have time, so it is just a brief recipe today. The Dorotheenkloster MS includes this gem: 213 For fritters in Lent Pound nut kernels and figs together in … Continue reading

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Bent Fritters and a Scribal Error

The Dorotheenkloster MS includes a version of a very popular recipe for cheese fritters, with a twist: 214 For crooked fritters Grate good cheese and take half as much flour, and break eggs into it so it can be rolled … Continue reading

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Lacing Points in Aspic

Though today’s recipe looks quite odd, it is not, in fact, an April Fool‘s joke. Rather, it seems to be an example of robust creative culinary humour, an illustration of ‘playing with food’. 190 A galantine of deer(-skin) laces Take … Continue reading

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Fake Headcheese for Lent

With regret, I will have to reduce the frequency of my postings here for the time being. Life, work, lectures and unfinished manuscripts are making demands on my time I cannot ignore. I will still try to be up here … Continue reading

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Figs in Jelly – A Parallel

The Dorotheenkloster MS contains this very attractive recipe: 191 A galantine of figs Take a pound (talentum) of figs, wash them nicely, and let them boil up once. Leave on the stalks, and set them into a bowl so the … Continue reading

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Another Drumstick Meatball Recipe

There are two recipes in the Dorotheenkloster MS that resemble of something I tried before: 184 A dish of chickens Take three chickens for a dish. Take their sheer (pretig) meat and chop it small. Season it with good spices … Continue reading

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A Third Parallel Chicken Fritter

This is a recipe I’ve written about before, but it is interesting it also occurs in the Dorotheenkloster MS: 134 Of chicken liver and stomach Take chicken livers and stomachs. Slice them thin and fry them in fat. Add eggs, … Continue reading

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More Blanc Manger

If there is one dish no medieval recipe collection can be without, it seems to be blanc manger, chicken breast cooked with almond milk and rice. The Dorotheenkloster MS has three such recipes: 126 A courtly gmüs of old chickens … Continue reading

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How To Cook Partridges

I apologise for the length of gaps between posts. My life and my other obligations leave me increasingly little room. Here are three ways of serving partridges from the Dorotheenkloster MS: 156 Of partridges Take three partridges, clean them well, … Continue reading

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