Tag Archives: preservation

Testing the Sloe Mustard

To make up for my longer absence over the weekend, here is a second post. Last autumn, I collected sloes to try out a few recipes. One of them was for a mustard from the Oeconomia ruralis et domestica: However, … Continue reading

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Pickled Crawfish

Just a brief recipe today, but potentially delicious: 47 Of crawfish tails Take crawfish and boil them, and shell the tails. When they are boiled, lay them in a pot and put in vinegar and spices. This is quite brief, … Continue reading

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Fish in Pastry

I expect to be on another holiday-related posting break for the next few days, but for today I have a very promising recipe from the Dorotheenkloster MS: 20 Of pike Scale pike and chop them in pieces. Chop parsley, sage, … Continue reading

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Wafer Fritters

Another set of recipes from Philippine Welser’s collection: 94 If you want to make wafer fritters (mandatten baches) Take almonds and grind or pound them small and see they do not turn oily. Moisten them with rosewater in a timely … Continue reading

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Stockfish Pastry

A short recipe today: It’s three days of school holidays around Ascension Day here and I’m spoiling my son rotten, which is much harder work than work. Anyways, from the recipe collection of Philippine Welser: 81 To make stockfish pastry … Continue reading

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Preserving Quince Juice

Another recipe from Philippine Welser’s recipe collection, another luxury. This is the earliest description I have yet found of the spoon test: 5 If you want to prepare quince juice First take the quinces and have them peeled. Cut them … Continue reading

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Clarifying Sugar with Philippine Welser

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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Another Instant Sauce

There is a parallel to the recipe for instant sauce from Meister Hans in the Mondseer Kochbuch: 140 A dry sauce A different sauce. Take sage, mint, pennyroyal, parsley, young and old sorrel (seeds?) that are small. Wash the herbs … Continue reading

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Spicy Sauce for Venison

Another quick recipe from the Mondseer Kochbuch: 134 Sauce (Condiment) for roe deer roast If you want to prepare a sauce (condiment) for a roe deer roast that you make out of it and want to keep, you shall not … Continue reading

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450 Years of Herbs in Cheese

Today, I wanted to post another small detail from the Macer Floridus, this one pertaining to making cheese: 1583 Its (mint) juice aids small cheeses not to rot if it is added or the green herb is placed upon the … Continue reading

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