Making History Easier to Digest
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.
Celebrate Halloween with these WWII-era recipes for popcorn balls, spiced apple cider and peanut butter sandwiches (with five mix-ins).
A homemade Halloween ice cream recipe from 1891.
Two pleasant vintage recipes: An open-faced cheese, sausage and tomato sandwich with its accompanying cucumber gelatin relish.
This recipe for stuffed eggs is from Liber de Coquina, a Latin manuscript dated from around the year 1300.
A Dollop of History 