May 2021 – MONK'S MODERN MEDIEVAL CUISINE

Language of cookery 7: lard or lardons?

Dr Monk looks at a recipe for medieval fried custards and asks, when is lard not lard?

Premium Content: recipe for Crustard of Erbes on a Fysche Day

Print off Dr Monk’s fully tested recipe, Tart of Salmon and Greens, based on the recipe from Richard II’s cookery book, Forme of Cury, Crustard of Erbes on a Fysche Day (Tart of Greens on a Fish Day), c. 1390.