Straight to the recipe This fourteenth-century recipe is especially for Lent, the period between carnival and Easter. Meat and dairy products…
An old-fashioned first course This used to be a traditional first course in many Dutch Christmas meals. The most common…
Straight to the recipe A recipe from the cook of Stadtholder Willem IV The recipe on this page is from Le…
Straight to the recipe An American classic from the nineteenth century Until the beginning of the nineteenth century, cooks and…
Warming, loving, substantial food While I am writing this (2 December 2010) it's freezing cold outside, the canal in front…
Straight to the recipe A fourteenth-century dish from France When I give a talk on medieval cuisine I always serve…
This one of the rare recipes for dough in old cookery books. Cooks knew how to prepare dough, so it…
Straight to the recipe Mushroom pie from Lancelot de Casteau This mushroom pie from 1604 is much more modern than…
Russian Salad the Dutch way I suppose Russian Salad is a popular dish all over the world, but I wonder…
People always think first of Italian pasta at the mention of fresh pasta. But many cuisines have a tradition of fresh noodles,…