Tag Archives: parallel

A Breadcrumb Cake

Posted on 28 February 2024 by carlton_bach

I am back to shorter posts of individual recipes that can hopefully be more frequent again. Today: Something the recipe collection of Philippine Welser calls a tart (dortten): 41 If you want to make a tart of semel bread (semla) … Continue reading →

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A Meatless Recipe Testing Session

Posted on 25 February 2024 by carlton_bach

On the anniversary of last year’s fritter experimenting session, I got together with some local friends from my mnedieval club for an arts & sciences meeting. I, of course, provided food. It was a good opportunity to try out a … Continue reading →

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Philippine Welser’s Strawberry Tart

Posted on 22 February 2024 by carlton_bach

I’m very busy and today’s recipe is brief again: 39 If you want to make a strawberry tart Lay the strawberries on the tart base and strew them with sugar, then lay on more strawberries and sugar again, until it … Continue reading →

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Egg Tarts from Philippine Welser

Posted on 27 January 2024 by carlton_bach

Another instance of this manuscript collecting many variations on a theme: 13 If you want to make an egg tart Take a Maß of milk and add ten eggs. Beat them well together and then put it into a pan. … Continue reading →

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Clarifying Sugar with Philippine Welser

Posted on 16 January 2024 by carlton_bach

Another source begins. Recipe 1 in the recipe collection owned by Philippine Welser (c. 1550): 1 Clarifying sugar Take one pound of sugar and the white of an egg, beat this well with a spoon and put it into the … Continue reading →

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Fritters from the Tegernsee List

Posted on 15 January 2024 by carlton_bach

Again a longer hiatus, but here is another interesting part of the Tegernsee list. We cannot reconstruct the dishes here because the majority of ingredients do not seem to have come from managed stores, but the variety of fritters served … Continue reading →

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Cooking Rice

Posted on 11 January 2024 by carlton_bach

Time is in very limited supply, but I would like to point out an interesting parallel. This recipe from the Mondseer Kochbuch (and its parallels) provides an illustration of the way rice was prepared: 164 To prepare rice well Of … Continue reading →

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Mus Dishes from the Tegernsee List

Posted on 8 January 2024 by carlton_bach

Another piece of the Tegernsee list. This is a section on Gmüeß, a word that at the time usually refers to side dishes. Its modern cognate, Gemüse, means vegetables, but its origin is with the word Mus, a dish of … Continue reading →

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Little Fritters in Sauce

Posted on 22 December 2023 by carlton_bach

The final day of a bad week, and a small, but interesting recipe from the Mondseer Kochbuch: 155 Fried beans or nuns’ farts in drink (nunnenfürtz in gesüff) Item of a side dish (gemüß). Roll out an egg dough with … Continue reading →

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Filled Eggs without Falcons

Posted on 20 December 2023 by carlton_bach

The ongoing parallels between the Mondseer Kochbuch and Meister Hans clarify the baffling habich muos. Among a number of recipes for filled eggs in the Mondseer Kochbuch, there is this: 149 Filled eggs Of filled eggs. Chop sage small, fry … Continue reading →

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