Straight to the recipe A spicy Walloon dish from the sixteenth century Last year I published a recipe for mushroom pie from…
Straight to the recipe The kitchen garden en vogue In the Middle Ages vegetables were impopular. They were unhealthy according to the…
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…
Recipes from the seventeenth century During Lent, between carnival and Easter, the catholic church (and after the Reformation several protestant…
This the third recipe for Good Friday. The other recipes are Pomegranate Salad and Jacobin Sops. If one grows spinach…
In the introduction to the recipe for Pomegranate Salad I mentioned the only day that the (catholic) French alle ate…
Straight to the recipe Jean-Louis Flandrin, who died in 2001, wrote in his posthumously published book L'Ordre des mets that the reformation…
Een French recipe from the seventeenth century Straight to the recipe A very simple recipe, because I am in…
This is the first 'historical' recipe for stock on my site. This meat stock is taken from Le cuisinier françois by François…