Tag Archives: preservation

Parboiling Meat in Summer

My apologies for the long silence. I had planned to post a new recipe Sunday, but was laid low by a nasty GI infection that made it hard to write anything, least of all anything about food. Today, I’ll be … 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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Cooking Preserved Sturgeon

My travel plans failed, but at least that gives me time to do a few more recipe translations. Here is one for preparing sturgeon: 147 A dish of sturgeons Take sturgeon (stueren, Accipenser sturio), salmon, or Beluga sturgeon (hausen, Huso … Continue reading

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Stockfish Recipes

There are several recipes for stockfish in the Dorotheenkloster MS, and quite interesting ones: 129 A gmues of stockfish Take a stockfish and water it for two days and two nights. Take it out on the third day, remove (literally: … Continue reading

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Drying Mushrooms

There are some interesting recipes hidden among the interminable list of gmues in the Dorotheenkloster MS. This is one of them: 122 A gmües of mushrooms (swammen) If you want to make gmües of mushrooms, pick them in May. Chop … Continue reading

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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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