Fancy a gilded, stuffed fig kebab? In my latest recipe experiment I adapt a delicious recipe from Richard II’s 14th-century cookery book.
Category Archives: Recipes
New YouTube Video: Medieval Christmas Bites 2
More moreish medieval Christmas bites! These slightly decadent canapes are fairly simple to make, I promise!
Premium Content: Medieval Christmas Bites Booklet
An early Christmas present for my Premium Content Subscribers… Modern Medieval Christmas Bites… Three delicious recipes for the perfect medievalist Christmas party.
Premium Content: Ryse of Fleysche, Printable Recipe
Detailed, printable recipe based on an original recipe from Forme of Cury, Richard II’s cookery treatise (c.1390).
Includes Dr Monk’s edition and translation of the original Middle English recipe.
Available to Premium Content Subscribers.
Premium Content: Chykens in Hocche, Printable Recipe
A detailed, printable recipe based on an original recipe from Forme of Cury (c.1390), Richard II’s official cookery book.
Includes Dr Monk’s edition and translation of the original recipe, along with historical notes.
Available to Premium Content Subscribers.
New YouTube video: In Search of Medieval Breakfast
Dr Christopher Monk explores what medieval folk may have eaten for breakfast, then cooks a fourteenth-century dish that has become a favourite for his own breakfast?
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.
Premium Content: recipe for Peerus in Confyt
Fully tested recipe for Peerus in Confyt (Pears in Syrup) based on Richard II’s Forme of Cury. Contains the edited text and a translation of the original medieval recipe.
Language of cookery 6: Capons and “quinces”
What have egg yolks and quinces to do with one another? Follow Dr Monk as he looks at 3 fourteenth-century recipes for a capon dish.
Medieval Christmas Pastries
Merry Christmas everyone! My first video (part 1 and 2) has arrived! Just follow the link below to see how I make Cuskynoles and Pynite. They are delicious! Video
Monk's Modern Medieval Cuisine 