Making History Easier to Digest
A delicious Victorian-era tea cake with raspberry filling.
A 15th-century Portuguese chicken dish inspired by Arab cuisine.
This medieval custard pudding is thickened with flour and eggs and can be thickened and sweetened to taste.
An overview of Indian culinary history and its many foreign, religious and cultural influences. Experience 16th-century Mughal cuisine through this traditional carrot halwa recipe.
These c. 1395 French hand pies are filled with mushrooms and cheese and flavored with spices.
While my content is usually based around historic food, today’s post will be a little bit different. I have chosen to use my ever-decreasing free time to revisit a subject I used to write about on this blog and to finally complete a project that has been gathering dust for the past few years. Medieval…
A simple 14th-century wheat porridge cooked in almond milk.
An easy three-ingredient almond paste/pudding recipe from Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin.
A medieval English blancmange recipe with almond milk, chicken and rice.
The story of Athenodorus and the Haunted House, as told by Pliny in his letter from the first century AD.
