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Plum Pie and Pieter Cornelisz Hooft

Straight to the recipe A delicious Dutch pie from the seventeenth century Straight to the recipe Summer is plum season.…

12 years ago

Sup with prunes and raisins

Straight to the recipe A dish for Lent This recipe for a 'sup' from the middle of the eighteenth century…

12 years ago

A medieval evergreen

Very, very healthy! In Asterix in Britain, the heroes Asterix and Obelix' first meal on British soil is eaten in a pub…

12 years ago

Smoking bishop

Straight to the recipe With Seville oranges Today many people have lost all feeling for what food is seasonaland what is…

12 years ago

Sponge cake for trifle

Straight to the recipe Mrs Beeton's recipe Trifle is built on a layer of sponge cake. Since I have used Mrs Beeton's recipe…

13 years ago

To make a trifle

Straight to the recipe Mrs Beeton's calorie bomb Our Christmas dinner from 2011 was themed Austen and Dickens. The recipe…

13 years ago

Nourishing square omelette

Straight to the recipe Medieval stuffed omelette with marrow Some years ago I prepared a menu in the Culinair-historisch Kookmuseum ('culinary cookery…

13 years ago

Divine wine

An exquisite drink from the seventeenth century Straight to the recipe During the seventeenth century a meal was often concluded by drinking…

13 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…

13 years ago

White tourte, a favourite of Pope Julius III

Straight to the recipe Sweet Italian pastry from the sixteenth century In the Netherlands we are used to abdications. This year,…

13 years ago