Here’s my modern English translation of a Middle English translation of a Latin text on cheesemaking. Fascinating!
Author Archives: Christopher Monk
Recipe experiment: flampens
Following on from my post on young cheese, here’s my experiment in reproducing the medieval English recipe that used this marvellous ingredient.
Research snippet: Drying herbs in a pie!
Herbs baked in a pie! Who’d’ve thought it?
Shining a light on… young cheese
Continuing the series on rarely mentioned ingredients, this time the llight is shone onto ‘tender chese’.
Shining a light on… the heading cabbage
We might think that cabbage has always been peasant fare. In this post, I explore the history of the so-called heading cabbage, a ‘fancy’ vegetable in 14th-century England.
Shining a light on medieval ingredients
Long pepper is the first ingredient in my ‘Shine a light on medieval ingredients’ series. And there’s an experimental recipe for you to try.
A little saucy
Here are a couple of interesting sauces for you to experiment with, one for poultry, the other for fish.
When is a goose not a goose?
Find out what happened when a goose met a peacock at a medieval feast.
Happy New Year! Top posts of 2024
Find out what the top five posts of 2024 were. And here’s to an even better 2025!
On the Twelfth Day of [Medieval] Christmas…
Here’s my re-imagining of the famous carol The Twelve Days of Christmas.
MONK'S MODERN MEDIEVAL CUISINE 