Medieval Cooking

Edelachtbaar Vrouwe Odriana vander Brugghe
Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands
Sylvan Kingdom of Æthelmearc
www.medievalcooking.org
jenn @ medievalcooking . org

“Heer, houd Uw arm om mijn schouder, en Uw hand over mijn mond.”

Awards:
Companion of the Fleur d’Æthelmearc June 2005
Companion of the Keystone, May 2002
Order of the Sycamore, August 2004
Award of Arms, September 2001
Order of the Comet Or (Baronial Service Award), August 2001
Order of the Comet Azure-Argent (Baronial Arts & Sciences Award), May 2003
Order of the Gold Comet (Baronial Service Award), June 2005

Recognitions:

• Winner of the 2010 Wooden Pin Competition with the entry, “The Four Seasons”.

• Winner of the Culinary category in the 2010 Ice Dragon competition with the entry “How to Make Eggs” a translation, analysis and redaction of a sixteenth century Dutch stuffed egg recipe.
• Translator of several recipes included in “A Boke of Gode Cookery: Volume One“, published in 2007.
• Medievalcooking.org was recognized as the Godecookery “Site of the Month” in July 2006
• The menu for the 2006 Alabama Renaissance Faire was based on my Frisian food and culture research.
• Winner of the 2005 William Blackfox Award for “Best Special Issue” as editor of the Arts and Sciences issue of the Althing (the newsletter of the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands).
• Winner of the first Wooden Pin competition with the entry, “Almond Pie in the English Manner”.
• Won the “Best Documentation” category at Atlantian Coronation (Spring 2005) with the research paper, “Frisian Cuisine: Roasted Chicken with Stuffing.”.

Current Offices Held:
Provost of the Aecademy, October 2009 - Present
Webminister-Order of the Fleur, September 2009-Present
Deputy A&S Minister, Shire of Sunderoak, January 2009 - Present
Deputy Kingdom A&S Minister, Kingdom of Æthelmearc, January 2007-Present

Previous Positions Held:
A&S Officer, Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, January 2005-January 2007
Webminister, Debatable Lands, November 2004 – November 2006
Head Retainer to Their Excellencies, Alonzio and Tatyana, October 2003-March 2005
Room Reservationist, CMU, College of Cour d’Or, February 2003-May 2006
Recording Secretary, Debatable Lands, November 2003-January 2005
Maintainer of the Baronial Order of Precedence, January 2004-June 2005
Deputy Seneschal, BMDL, November 2001-January 2005
Baronial Historian, Debatable Lands, September 2001-November 2003
Baronial Steward, Debatable Lands, September 2001-April 2003

Other Activities:
Apprenticed to Master Huon Dambrigge, May 2005-Present
Member of the Æthelmearc Cook’s Guild. January 2002-Present
Member of the Æthelmearc Scribes Guild, January 2003-August 2006,
September 2009-Present
Did the original redesign for the Æthelmearc Rapier Combat webpage in 2004.

Events Autocratted:
Æthelmearc Æcademy, June 2005
Cook’s Collegium, November 2004
Baronial Twelfth Night, January 2001

Events Co-Autocratted:
Coronation of Rurik and Elspeth, September 2002 (with Mistress Ts’vee’a bas Tseepora Levi)
Clown Tourney, April 2000 (with Master Christofano Vecchione)

Events as Head Cook:
Æthelmearc Camp Set-Up Luncheon, August 2010
Agincourt, October 2009 (mentoring Lady Elß of Augsburg, the lunch cook)
The Vigil of Þorgrim Skullsplitter, August 2009
Æthelmearc War College, June 2009
Agincourt, October 2008
BMDL Baronial Dinner (coordinated food), August 2008
Agincourt, October 2007
Agincourt, October 2006
Pennsic Æthelmearc Party (coordinated food), August 2006
Known World Exchequers and Seneschal’s Symposium Reception, April 2006
Pennsic Æthelmearc Party (coordinated food), August 2005
Memorial Dinner for Johann von Traubenberg, August 2005
Vetr Þing, February 2005
Kriskindermart, December 2003
BMDL Baronial Dinner, August 2002
Cour d’Or Schola, September 2001

Events as Co-Cook or Assistant Cook
Co-Cook, Agincourt, October 2010 (feast only, with Lady Elß of Augsburg and Alethea Cowle, lunch cooks)
Assist. Cook, Queen’s Rapier Championship, May 2010 (Head Cook, Lady Elß of Augsburg)

Works In Progress:
The Spice Box of the Low Countries (16th Century)
This is a project to determine the most common flavorings used in Dutch cuisine during the sixteenth century by counting frequency in three sixteenth century Netherlandish cookbooks: “Wel ende edelike spijse” (1500), “Het eerste gedrukte Nederlandsche kookboek” (+1510), and “Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboek” (1593). This is a general survey and the individual counts will be presented separately, but interpreted as a whole. This allows for individual analysis and interpretation of the results. The methodology that I used was to count the frequency of appearance of specific spices, herbs, sweeteners, nuts, florals, and miscellaneous flavorings that appear in these works.

The preliminary analysis and the data tables will be published in the 2009 A&S Issue of the Æstel. Subsequent information will be made available at medievalcooking.org

Works in progress that are slow tracked.
Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboeck
Coordinator of Project to translate this cookbook from Dutch to English and prepare to publish on line. This is a collection of recipes originally published in 1593 in Dutch by Carel Baten (Carolus Battus).

Published Works:
The Chicken Came First: A History of the Domesticated Chicken
This is a general survey of the information gathered while researching the origins of the domestic chicken. This information premiered at the Royal University of the Midrealm on 20 February 2010 and has been published at www.medievalcooking.org.

History of Fruitcake
This is an update of the information first explored in “In Search of the Ancestral Fruitcake” approximately five years ago (2005). There has been significant new information and there are quite a few points that I have re-thought over the years. This was to ensure that the available information was as up to date as possible. This was published as an update to medievalcooking.org.

Almond Pie in the English Manner.
Winner of the first Wooden Pin Competition, sponsored by Gode Cookery.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2005. This is a recipe translated and redacted from Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboek for the first Æthelmearc Wooden Pin Competition.

Frisian Cuisine: Roasted Chicken with Stuffing
Won “Best Documentation” category at Atlantian Coronation, March 2005.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2005. This is the documentation written for a prepared entry for Ice Dragon.

Frisian Cuisine.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2005. This is a recreation of the cuisine of Frisia between 800-1000 CE based on archaeological evidence.

Odriana Zegt Iets Die Over Voedsel Interesseert. (“Odriana says something interesting about food”).
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2004. This was a monthly food column published in the Althing, the newsletter of the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, beginning in November of 2004 and ending in November of 2005.

Two Recipes Translated and Redacted from Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboeck by Carolus Battus.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2004. This was my entry for Ice Dragon 2004.

An Analysis and Overview of Translating Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboek (June 2004).
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2004. This was a presentation written for my first class at an AEcademy.

A German Market Day Feast.
Strobel, Jennifer. (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2003. Feast Booklet for an all-day 15th century German sideboard. Copyright 2003.

The Autocrat’s Handbook.
Strobel, Jennifer (Ed). (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2003. This is a handbook for new autocrats in the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands. As of February 2010, this handbook is in the process of being updated by THL Hildarun Hugelman.

On the Trail of the Ancestral Fruitcake.
Nominated for the 2004 William Blackfox Award for “Best Article”.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2003. Expanded version including information on Mostazzoli and the creation of the plausible, but not documentable “Pampepato d’Odriana”. Submitted for publication in the A&S Issue of the Æstel, November 2003.

Deconstucting Dutch Cuisine.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2003. Published in the A&S edition of the Althing, newsletter of the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands. Guest editor, Master Michael Alewright of the MacPhe.

On the Trail of the Ancestral Fruitcake.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2003. Published in the September 2003 Althing, newsletter of the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands.

To Serve as Retainer: An introductory discourse upon the art of retaining for Royalty and the Landed Nobility in the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Class Handout. Copyright 2003.

Fill My Cup:A Brief History of Coffee.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2002. Published in the Arts and Sciences issue (September 2002) of the Althing, newsletter of the Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands

Classes Taught:
The Chicken Came First: A History of the Domesticated Chicken
This is a general survey of the information gathered while researching the origins of the domestic chicken.
This class has been taught at:
Royal University of the Midrealm, February 2010, Marche of Alderford
Shire of Sunderoak A&S Night, April 2010, Shire of Sunderoak

Frisian Cuisine - or, how to document a cuisine without a cookbook.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2005. This class discusses the cuisine of Frisia during the years 800-1000 with an emphasis on how to create a menu for a cuisine in a culture that has no cookbooks.
This class has been taught at:
Æcademy, June 2005, Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands
CooksCon 3, June 2005, Colorado Springs, Colorado (the material was read by Robin Clune)
Pennsic University, August 2005, Canton of Steltonwald
Royal University of the Midrealm, February 2010, Marche of Alderford
Shire of Sunderoak A&S Night, April 2010, Shire of Sunderoak

An Analysis and Overview of Translating Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboeck (Carolus Battus).
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2004. This is a presentation about the experience of the process of translating a specific cookbook from Medieval Dutch into English.
This class has been taught at:
BMDL A&S Night, March 2008, BMDL

To Serve as Retainer: An introductory discourse upon the art of retaining for Royalty and the Landed Nobility in the Society for Creative Anachronism.
Strobel, Jennifer (known in the Society as Odriana vander Brugghe). Copyright 2003. This is an introductory class to retaining for anyone who may require one, from your best friend to the King and Queen.
This class has been taught at:
The Investiture of Alonzio and Tatyana, October 2003, BMDL