Snack

Pickled anchovies

For the third course of the menu with adapted recipes in the edition of Het excellente kookboek (The Excellent Cookbook)…

3 years ago

Nineteenth-century Anchovy Toast

The recipe on this page was my Christmas card from 2018. Christine Charlotte Riedl The illustration above is from the…

4 years ago

Cheese biscuits

Straight to the recipe The first recipes for 2019 both concern hot, mulled wine. To accompany these wines, I have…

5 years ago

Quince jelly

In the Dutch language quinces are called quince apple or or quince pear. According to the sixteenth-century recipe for quince…

6 years ago

Traditional Dutch herring salad

The Dutch are famous for eating 'Dutch new' or 'matjes' herring, which is essentially still raw. Tourists stare with fascinated…

6 years ago

Dutch bitterballen from leftover oxtail meat

With oxtail meat and stock and dried ceps For the family Christmas dinner in 2014 I had prepared an old-fashioned clear…

6 years ago

Medieval Arab Candy

Straight to the recipe A thirteenth-century recipe Nearly everyone agrees that sugar is poison. However, it is only considereda poison…

7 years ago

Pasties with sweetbread

Straight to the recipe What Johann Sebastian Bach might have eaten in Leipzig The connection between the pasties and the…

12 years ago

Lucanian sausages

Straight to the recipe An ancient Roman delicacy In June 2012 I gave a talk about Roman Food at the Roman Festival in Nijmegen,…

12 years ago

Medieval Easter Eggs

Straight to the recipe Playing with colours During Lent, which starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday before…

12 years ago