I am a part-time historian, teacher, free-lance writer and musician. I started this blog to present history in an accurate, accessible and interesting way. In bite-sized and/or easily digestible pieces. Let’s call them dollops?
I’ll write about pretty much anything that interests me, but my special area of expertise is medieval food! I teach a community medieval cooking class, so most of my food history posts will have a 13th-15th century focus.
Take a look at the menus to see if any of the topics there pique your interest. If there is something that you’d like me to explore and research, feel free to send requests.
Contact Information
If you would like to contact me, feel free to comment anywhere on my blog or send an e-mail to sanniebhistorian@gmail.com. I would love to hear from you!
About the Recipes
All of the recipes featured in this blog come directly from manuscripts, old cookbooks and authentic recipe clippings. I follow them exactly and fill in any gaps of knowledge with what I know about history. I do not modernize or change the recipe unless it is absolutely necessary (like using an ingredient substitute), though I will use modern tools and basic appliances. I usually make them solo but on occasion I am joined by my very supportive husband or my younger brothers.
Interpreting and understanding the context of the recipes is only half of the fun. Food is the closest thing we have to time travel! There’s nothing quite like experiencing ancient dishes and flavors, and food really does teach us a lot about the past and provides just a small snapshot of what daily life was like.
These recipes have been preserved for centuries and thanks to technology and digitization of manuscripts they are now available to everyone, not just historians. You don’t have to be a professional chef or a food historian to make a decent ancient meal, and you don’t even have to do the research because I’ve done it for you!
A Note on the Photography and Copyright
Most of the food photography is done by me or by my husband. Please give credit where credit is due, should you choose to use any of my content.
A Dollop of History 
Are your articles copyrighted or could they be used (assigning proper credit) on a reading assessment?
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Hi E Tindall! Glad you like my articles. They are copyrighted in the sense that I researched and wrote them specifically for this blog; they belong to me. You are more than welcome to source my articles to your heart’s content, I just ask that you give me the proper credit. Everything I’ve written has been researched heavily so I feel very confident in their accuracy. Do you mind my asking which topic interests you the most?
Thanks for your support!
-Sarah
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Who owns this?
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Hi Gina, I am the owner of this blog.
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Hi Sarah
We are food history publishers and I wonder if you could review Sweet Slices of History (Baking and Cakes) by Marjory Szurko. The recipes are from the fourteenth century onwards. Are you in the UK? Let me know, Catheryn – at Prospect Books.
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Hi Catheryn,
I am in the US but I would love to review Sweet Slices of History. Thank you! – Sarah
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You have a great blog collection of wonderful recipes!!!
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Thank you!!
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cool!
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I like your layout, would you mind telling me which layout on WordPress did you chose?
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Thank you! It’s Dyad 2. 🙂
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Hola, acabo de descubrir su blog y me ha sorprendido gratamente.Yobtambien escribo recetas y siempre me gusta investigar el origen de los postres que es sobre lo que escribo.Creo que es importante saber que estamos comiendo y como se creó tal plato.Si me lo permite su blog será una fuente para mi blog , por supuesto añadiendo los créditos y fuentes correspondientes,Enhorabuena, un saludo
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