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An Odd Recipe from the Innsbruck MS

It is for pasteten, but what these are is quite unclear: 49 If you would make a pastry (pasteten), make a dough of eggs as though you wanted to make hare’s ears (hasenorel, a type of fritter). Then roast that … Continue reading

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A Deer Liver Dish from Cgm 384 II

An odd dish with an interesting twist: 7 Roe Deer Liver A dish of a roe deer liver. Take the liver and boil it or fry it or roast it. Then chop it small or pound it small or pound … Continue reading

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Pork Sausages from de Rontzier

We are almost done with the sausages in de Rontzier. These are the pork recipes: Sausages of domestic pig or wild boar 1 You chop pork and roe deer venison, one as much as the other, with the intestinal fat … Continue reading

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Boiled fritters from the Inntalkochbuch

Another gemüs recipe today, a complex side dish that I have yet to experiment with. <<53>> Ein gemüs A side dish Make a batter with 6 eggs and fry it like strauben (a kind of leavened fritter). Chop it up … Continue reading

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A Possible Choux Pastry Recipe

This is an interesting recipe, but unfortunately not a conclusive one. The term pranntem taig is suggestive – in modern German, Brandteig or Brandmasse is the term for choux pastry. The description could fit – flour mixed with hot liquid, … Continue reading

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Another recipe for ‘cheese knitwork’, this time from the Inntalkochbuch

This one is clearly a parallel to the twin recipes in Cod Pal Germ 551. I am still not entirely sure how to read it, but it certainly sounds interesting. <<35>> Ein gefulcz von einem chäs A gefulcz (felted dish?) … Continue reading

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Heron Mus from the Inntalkochbuch

In honour of an encounter in the park this morning, this recipe from the Inntalkochbuch. I am not sure how to interpret it, but it is clearly heron. <<27>> Von einem raiger mues Of a heron mues (spoon dish) First … Continue reading

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Some venison recipes from the Inntalkochbuch

These are a good illustration of why working with historic recipes can be infuriating. All bits and pieces of information, but very little in the way of guidance in interpreting it. <<17>> Von wiltprät im slaff Venison im slaff (sleeping?) … Continue reading

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Fake venison from the Königsberg MS

No parallel here, but there are recipes for ground meat used to imitate venison in several sources, including the Mittelniederdeutsches Kochbuch (#91) and Meister Hans (#72). Another recipe imitates the dish using eggs instead of meat. [[7]] Willthu machenn gutt … Continue reading

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Legumes according to Constantinus Africanus

We are not done with Ishaq b. Sulaiman al-Israili yet. About legumes – and again, we have almost recipes. (…) Some cook them (beans) in water, and some roast them by the fire. Those (beans) that are cooked in water … Continue reading

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