Diary started October 13th 2005 Dress first worn: August 26, 2006. Saxony, Germany [Edit: After almost 2 years of calling this my “german” dress I’ve come to find out that Cranach was a court painter to Frederick the Wise of Saxony. During the time of the portraits under study (1520-1540) he had settled permanently at Wittenberg. This means that we…
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Dress of the Court of Saxony
This style of dress proliferated in the Saxony region of what would be modern day Germany. Cranach the Elder was a court painter to Frederick the Wise of Saxony. During the time of the portraits under study (1520-1540) he had settled permanently at Wittenberg. Identifying details: – Wide front with laces showing below a decorated placket – Skirt pleated into…
Mists Bardic Feast September 11, A. S. XXXIX (2004)
Mists Bardic Feast September 11, A. S. XXXIX Bard of the Mists: Lady Elsa Saxenkammer Head Cuisinière: Lady Sylvie la chardonnière Autocrat: Lady Edith de Laufare First service from the sideboard (12:30-ish) Pique the appetite. Tasty things that make you hungry. Sausages served cold Savoury Melted Cheese Fresh sliced apples, pears, carrots, cucumbers, celery Bread First Round of Bardic Competition…
Tourte
Tourte To make a tart (Tourte) Goodman, p. 183. To make a tart, take four handfulls of beets, two handfulls of parsley, a handful of chervil, a sprig of fennel and two handfuls of spinach, and pick them over and wash them in cold water, then cut them up very small; then bray with two sorts of cheese, to wit…
Winter Squash Soup Fringed with Saffron
Winter Squash Soup Fringed with Saffron GOURDS. Menagier de Paris (under soups) Let the rind be peeled, for that is best: and always if you want the insides, let the seeds be removed, though it is said that the rind is worth more, then cut up the rind in pieces, then parboil, then chop lengthways, then put to cook in…
Sallet
SALLET SALAT. XX.III. XVI. Cury, 1390 Take persel, sawge, garlec, chibolles, oynouns, leek, borage, myntes, porrectes [1], fenel and ton tressis [2], rew, rosemarye, purslarye [3], laue and waische hem clene, pike hem, pluk hem small wiþ þyn [4] honde and myng hem wel with rawe oile. lay on vynegur and salt, and serue it forth. [1] Porrectes. Fr. _Porrette_.…
Decorated Rice
Decorated Rice Decorated Rice Goodman of Paris RICE for a meat day. Pick it over and wash in two or three changes of hot water, and put to dry on the fire, then add boiling cow’s milk, and grind up saffron to colour it yellow: soak with your milk, then add in grease from beef stock. Goodman of Paris RICE,…
Black Pepper Sauce
Black Pepper Sauce Forme of Cury, c. 1390 Take brede and fry it in grece. Draw it up with broth and vynegar. Take thereto powdor of peper and salt and sette it on the fyre. Boile it and mess it forth. 208. Black Pepper [Sauce]. Taillevent, p. 67. Crush ginger, burnt bread and pepper, steep in vinegar and verjuice, and…
Lemon and Lime Peels
Lemon and Lime Peels To Make Candied Orange Peel, Goodman, p. 202. To make candied orange peel, divide the peel of one orange into five quarters and scrape with a knife to remove the white part inside, then put them to soak in good sweet water for nine days, and change the water every day; then cook them in good…
Pears in Wine Sauce
Pears in Wine Sauce Pears in a wine sauce PEERES [1] IN CONFYT. XX.VI. XII. Cury Take peeres and pare hem clene. take gode rede wyne & mulberes [2] oþer saundres and seeþ þe peeres þerin & whan þei buth ysode, take hem up, make a syryp of wyne greke. oþer vernage [3] with blaunche powdour oþer white sugur and…