With meat

Medieval applesauce from England

Greasy! Elsewhere on Coquinaria I have published a recipe for Apple Sauce for Lent. On this page is an English…

19 years ago

Stuffed quinces

Straight to the recipe A medieval recipe with marrow Triggered by the appearance of a cookbook with beautiful marrow bones…

19 years ago

Sluberkens

Straight to the recipe Medieval pasties with bone marrow In 2006 I acquired the book Bones by Australian chef de cuisine Jennifer McLagan.…

19 years ago

Royal peas

Well alright then, just the one! Straight to the recipe Garden peas were an absolute hype in the seventeenth century. They…

19 years ago

Herb soup with potato dumplings

Straight to the recipe A delicate herald of Spring The text for this recipe is from a cookbook from the nineteenth…

19 years ago

Veal Mortadella

Straight to the recipe A fifteenth-century antipasto Modern Mortadella is an Italian sausage originating from Bologna, with pink meat, speckled with little…

20 years ago

Savoury meat jelly

Solidified nectar In the past glue was made by boiling skins and bones of animals. This has led to the…

20 years ago

Real Dutch kroket and bitterbal

The picture shows my daughter and some of her friends at her birthday party many years ago (in 2002). As…

20 years ago

Indonesian chicken stock

Indonesian cuisine does not have soups as a first course, although sometimes they appear on the menu through Chinese and…

20 years ago

Concentrated quail stock

Quails are small birds, related to partridges. Although -at least in the Netherlands- they are called 'game birds', they are…

20 years ago