Medieval Cooking

I was looking for something else and found another interpretation of the same recipe. It was done by Christianne Muusers, who is a Dutch food historian, and one of my heroes. I was disappointed that I didn’t know that she’d done this recipe.
Go to: http://www.coquinaria.nl/english/recipes/03.4histrecept.htm
I am trying to get everything together for the [...]

I am doing some pre-cooking for the Queen’s Rapier Championship event that will be held at the end of the month. Many of the recipes are out of Traveling Dysshes by Siobhan Medhbh O’Roarke and Cordelia Toser. This feast is being cooked on a very strict deadline, so there is no time to [...]

This was originally written in October of 2009 and somehow never posted.  It was a stressful time of my life, so I am not surprised that I forgot to hit “publish”.  Enjoy.
The last two weeks have been stressful. The weekend before last, my daughter was hospitalized with an asthma “event” and we spent several days [...]

The last few weeks have been working through my research paper. It has grown significantly from the documentation of a single breed of chicken and is now a survey of domesticated chickens since the earliest records of domestication through to the latter part of the 17th century (I am using Digby, which was published [...]

Recently I was sent a link to an article about a very interesting study done in England that identified that food taste in that country was as unique and identifiable by region as accents. The why for this was quite varied and some of it struck me as a bit of a stretch such [...]

This past week was a week where I was not feeling it as far as blogging goes. The week before that took a lot out of me and I fell behind on basic house maintenance and self-care. Last week was more about making my environment comfortable than about food and food blogging, which is sometimes [...]

I had this idea in my head to create an opportunity that would span skill levels and everyone would gain something from it. The plan was to allow people that were new to redacting to approach redacting medieval recipes in a less stressful fashion and for those already comfortable with redacting to give them [...]

Eating responsibly should include some thought towards waste. What is more wasteful than only eating bits and pieces of an animal that has been slaughtered on our behalf? There is a new movement towards nose-to-tail eating that is gaining steam in the environment of American frugal-chic. It wastes nothing and offal [...]