Main dish

An old family recipe

I have good memories of this salad. My grandmother (on the right, with me on her lap) prepared it during…

4 years ago

Medieval onion stew

Straight to the recipe The recipe for this nourishing dish has survived in several medieval English manuscripts. Although it is…

4 years ago

Fish with leeks for Lent

Straight to the recipe Herring, often in preserved form, is very important food for medieval people. During the fifteenth century,…

5 years ago

Vegetarian cutlets from World War I

Straight to the recipe Recently a book was published containing the biography of the Dutch chef Iwan Kriens (1871- ca…

5 years ago

Cooking with clay

Wrapped fish, baked on a coal fire Archaeologists and archaeobotanists are experts in reconstructing cooking methods and ingredients that were…

6 years ago

Macaroni Pie

Straight to the recipe This recipe from the cookbook Allied Cookery is a lot like the oven dish from the Dutch Oorlogskookboek ('War cookbook'): pasta,…

7 years ago

Macaroni with tomatoes

Straight to the recipe From the Oorlogs-kookboek ('War-cookbook') from 1918 This is a Dutch recipe from World War I, also known…

7 years ago

Roman tuna

Straight to the recipe Great with stewed cucumber Every year around the first day of May there is a Romeinenweek or…

7 years ago

‘Gilt poverty’

Straight to the recipe A very simple recipe from 'the first Dutch television cook' The information on this page concerns…

9 years ago

Chicken with spring vegetables

Straight to the recipe A recipe from the First Stadtholderless Period On 30 April 2013 Dutch Queen Beatrix abdicated from…

11 years ago