Monks – Monk's Modern-Medieval Cuisine

Bread for the monks, perks for the senior bakers, and stripping off to bolt the flour

Would you like to know what went on in a thirteenth-century monastic bakehouse? Read on.

Food related articles for Rochester Cathedral exhibition

Some new articles about food rents, diets, and medical recipes on Rochester Cathedral’s website.

Monks & Meat

Early Benedictine monks abstained from meat except for when gravely ill, but by the later medieval period they were regularly consuming meat. In this post, I take a look at the example of the Benedictine community at St Andrew’s Priory, Rochester, where even suckling pig was on the menu!