This is not just food. This is a medieval queen’s food. (I hope she had good teeth.) Read the original 14th-century recipe, my experimental adaptation of this, and for the diehards, some history and language explaining the meaning of the recipe’s name.
Tag Archives: Forme of Cury
New YouTube Video: Mini Flaumpeyns
Mini Flaumpeyns… ‘flame-pastries’, aka Flampointes, ‘flame-points’, these are moreishness in a morsel and perfect with Christmas bubbly!
Premium Content: Recipe for Peerus in Confyt
Detailed written recipe for Pears in Syrup. Includes original medieval recipe with translation.
Premium Content: Ryse of Fleysche Video
Dr Monk cooks Ryse of Fleysche (based on an original recipe in Forme of Cury).
Available to Premium Content Subscribers.
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 Video: Chykens in Hocche
Delicately spiced, this warming dish of poached chicken and saffron rice is guaranteed to brighten any autumnal gloom!
Dr Monk brings to life another delicious recipe from Richard II’s cookery work, Forme of Cury (c.1390).
‘Take Greek wine or Rhenish wine with honey’: an oenological journey
Medieval wines can be difficult to categorise. Dr Monk takes a close look at two wines that appear in the recicpe ‘Royal Dish’.
Some follow-up thoughts on Forme of Cury video
More information about the John Rylands Library version of Forme of Cury… and a theory about who may have commissioned the copying of the text into the British Library roll.
Premium Content: Reading of Capouns in Councy
Dr Monk reads Capouns in Councy (Capons in Quince Sauce) from Forme of Cury, along with his translation.
MONK'S MODERN MEDIEVAL CUISINE 