Marbled Eggs This was one of the few -stretch- dishes. I can document that they ate hard boiled eggs in our period of study, but I can’t document that they made “marbled eggs”. This melded really nicely with my theme though so I was ok with letting it go out. Hard boil eggs Add eggs to cold water. Bring water…
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Leach
Leach A White Leach The Good Huswifes Jewell, Thomas Dawson, 1596 Take a quart of newe milk, and three ounces weight of Isinglasse, halfe a pound of beaten suger, and stirre them together, and let it boile half a quarter of an hower till it be thicke, stirring them all the while: then strain it with three spoonfull of Rosewater,…
Cow’s Milk Jance
Cow’s Milk Jance Le Viandier de Taillevent (1373-1380) Taillevent, p. 67. 209. Cow’s Milk Jance [Sauce]. Crush ginger with egg yolks, steep in cow’s milk, and boil. (BN manuscript, p. 34.) COW’S MILK JANCE Menagier de Paris (1393) Grind ginger, egg yolks without specks (embryos), and pass them raw through the sieve with cow’s milk: or if you fear it…
Honey Glazed Vegetables
Honey Glazed Vegetables For the honeyed veggies I used Vigdis’ recipe. Turnips, carrots, squash, fennel root, parsley root: cook in a little water until almost tender. Add honey, and cook until liquid is mostly evaporated, coating all vegetables with the honey. (based on (MdP) Turnips (6 lbs) Carrots (7 lbs) Squash (7 lbs) Fennel root (4 lbs) Parsley root (4…
Green Garlic Sauce
Green Garlic Sauce 155. Green Garlic [Sauce]. Taillevent, p. 47. Crush garlic, bread and greens, and steep together. [Note: this is in a section titled “How to make unboilded sauces.” So “steep” can’t mean boil.] VERDE [1] SAWSE. XX.VII. Forme of Cury. Take parsel. mynt. garlek. a litul serpell [2] and sawge, a litul canel. gyngur. piper. wyne. brede. vynegur…
Citrus Sauce
Citrus Sauce To boile a Capon with Orenges and Lemmons The Good Huswifes Jewell Take Orenges or Lemmons pilled, and cutte them the long way, and if you can keepe your cloves whole and put them into your best broth of Mutton or Capon with prunes or currants and three or fowre dates, and when these have beene well sodden…
Savoury Tosted or Melted Cheese
Savoury Tosted or Melted Cheese Digby p. 228/177 Cut pieces of quick, fat, rich, well tasted cheese, (as the best of Brye, Cheshire, &c. or sharp thick Cream-Cheese) into a dish of thick beaten melted Butter, that hath served for Sparages or the like, or pease, or other boiled Sallet, or ragout of meat, or gravy of Mutton: and, if…
Summertime Cerulean Blue Sauce
Summertime Cerulean Blue Sauce Medieval Kitchen, p. 168, From Libro de arte coquinaria. Sapor celeste de estate Piglia de li moroni salvatiche che noscono in le fratte, et un poche de amondole ben piste, con un pocho di zenzevero. Et queste cose distemperatai con agresto et passarale per la stamegnia Sky-blue sauce for summer Take some of the wild blackberries…
Cameline
Cameline 152. To make Cameline [Sauce]. Taillevent, p. 47. Take ginger, plenty of cassia, cloves, grains of paradise, mastic thyme and long pepper (if you wish). Sieve bread soaked in vinegar, strain [through cheesecloth], and salt to taste. CAMELINE. Goodman of Paris. Note that at Tournais, to make cameline, they grind together ginger, cinnamon and saffron and half a nutmeg:…
Bourblier of boar
Bourblier of boar 43. Bourblier of fresh boar. Taillevent, p. 22 Put it into boiling water, remove it very soon, roast it, and baste it with a sauce made of spices (to wit, ginger, cassia, cloves, grains of paradise and some grilled bread soaked with wine, verjuice and vinegar). When it is cooked, [cut it into bits and boil] everything…