On this page are some links to pages with tips, tricks and basic recipes concerning kitchenware, serving and eating meals, cooking techniques, and preparing ingredients. The instructions are also meant to help those who are real beginners, so maybe they are too extensive for the more experienced cooks. If there are variations on a basic…
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Deep-fried braids(Dafâir)
Straight to the recipe An Arab recipe from the thirteenth century Arab pastry is delicious. Sweet and rich, but really delicious. This was already so in medieval times on, when sweet pastry was served after a meal. You can imagine that after a copious meal with a plethora of mouth-watering dishes the pastry had to be very…
Roman sourdough bread
The Romans knew several kinds of bread. Mostly these breads were made with sourdough. The meal that was used was wheat, spelt, barley or rice. Even ground pulses were used. In the second century before Christ bread started to displace pulses as basic food. Bread was eaten every day, at every meal. This explains the…