Simply delicious. Fried almond cakes are perfect with a glass of (well-chilled) mead!
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Easy Medieval Food: Kloten en Honær
Kloten en Honær. Tender chicken and smoked bacon dumplings, spiced with cumin, and served in an enriched cumin and saffron chicken broth. Comfort in a bowl! Based on an original thirteenth-century, northern European cookery collection.
Easy Medieval Food: Payne Foundewe
The third dish in my Easy Medieval Food series is Payne Foundewe, meaning something like ‘melted bread’. It is very easy to make. In essence it’s a sweet bread pudding, full of juicy raisins of Corinth (currants), and spiced with cassia (a kind of cinnamon), nutmeg and stem ginger, which is what medieval folk calledContinue reading “Easy Medieval Food: Payne Foundewe”
Easy Medieval Food: Douce Jame
The latest video in my new series Easy Medieval Food. Douce Jame. Chicken cooked in milk. Easy & delicious!
Medieval culinary glossary: hippocras
It’s the letter H in my glossary. And H is for hippocras. There’s a new YouTube video, too, for you to watch. All about John Russell’s 15th-century recipe for this spiced, sweet wine.
Medieval to Modern: Smoked chickpeas experiment
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in developing and creating a modern version of a medieval dish? After all, medieval recipes are very often light on detail, not just in their refusal to give out quantities or proportions of ingredients but also in their timings, and even in their actual methodsContinue reading “Medieval to Modern: Smoked chickpeas experiment”
It’s elderflower season, so…
If you missed it last year, here’s my elderflower cheesecake tart, adapted from Richard II’s recipe, Sambocade.
The Rochester Priory Flan: Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal
My latest recipe is being made available as a free download, but I’m asking folk to donate to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal instead of making the normal payment.