Serve warm. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Bottle when cold, then cork securely. Home Holidays & Events Holidays Mother's Day. Find out more and buy the book here. In her spare time, she also runs a food blog full of original, easy recipes. Seeth it in gode broth; cast therto erbes yhewe gode won, and a quantite of oynouns mynced, powdour fort and safroun, and alye it with ayren and verious: but let it not seeth after. Stir occasionally while cooling to prevent a skin forming. To make mortreux of fisch. Bake it at 160°C for about 45 minutes or until it is just set in the centre. Sprinkle with the salt, ginger, saffron and 4 tbsp of the vinegar. Fasting took place in the Advent period, meaning four weeks of lean eating to prepare for the feast. Serve the mortrews in six small bowls or plates, putting a coloured and a plain spoonful of mixture side by side in each. Beat the eggs with the lemon juice until blended, then take the pan off the heat and stir the egg mixture gradually into the stew to thicken it slightly. Warm the wine until it just begins to steam. Brush them with a little melted fat, then place them under a hot grilling flame until they are just beginning to glaze. If using an open-hearted cabbage or greens, cut off the stalks and cut the leaves into strips. Pour the custard into the pastry case. The first recipes for spiced wine appeared at the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th century. And do therto safroun & salt, and force it with powdour douce. Cole it; salt it & messe it forth. If you can get these in season and freeze them, you can use their juice as a substitute for verjuice – it makes a delicious sauce. We would love to see your medieval feasts – send us pictures of your creations using @britishmuseum on Instagram and Twitter. • 600g skinned cod fillet• A pinch of sea salt• 125g ground almonds• 2 tsp rice flour or corn flour• 3 tbsp deep yellow saffron water or food colouring• 1⁄2 tsp ground ginger• 3⁄4 tsp white sugar. Take alle thise thynges vp & lat it kele on a faire cloth. When the whole royal court assembled, hundreds of people could be sitting down to eat. Her work has been published in Rachael Ray Every Day, Art Quench, RMagazine and Edible Jersey. Mix the pepper with the breadcrumbs and add them to the onions with the ale and 225ml of the water used to cook the fish. Seal the lids with beaten egg. Pickling was an important way of preserving vegetables in the Middle Ages, and still is. Use sparkling cider, ginger ale or sparkling grape juice for a nonalcoholic version. Make small tarts if you prefer. This recipe is not quite as sweet and is more like modern recipes. Chill until needed. This recipe could be made as a starter, or as a main course if you add small pieces of toast and small strips of fried bacon – both well-known medieval additions. Put the liquid into an electric blender, followed by the flaked fish, and process until smooth. Chill. Spices were among the most luxurious products available in the Middle Ages. Julia Mullaney. Put the wine and honey in a pan. Add the sugar and allow to dissolve. Combine the ground ginger and 1⁄4 tsp of the sugar and mix into the golden fish, reserving a little of the mixture for sprinkling. To make Stekys of venson or bef. London WC1B 3DG You will need two thirds of the filling for them. This cherry pottage was a genteel dish, being made with wine and white bread, and called for the use of precious white sugar! Just before serving, sprinkle the remaining ginger/sugar mix on the gold portions and the remaining 1⁄2 tsp plain sugar on the white portions. But another recipe from the Medieval household book Le Ménagier de Paris (the Goodman of Paris) suggests using the juice of Seville oranges. Chill while making the filling. Pur fait ypocras. The drink became extremely popular and was regarded as having various medicinal or even aphrodisiac properties. Process until smooth in an electric blender, then simmer for a few minutes to reheat. Roll out the remaining pastry and use it to make lids for the pasties. Make a small crosscut in the centre of each lid. Skin the haddock fillet and cut into several pieces. Serve the rest separately. Strain the almond ‘milk’ into a jug, stirring to separate the free liquid from the almond sludge in the strainer. While simmering, drain the remaining water from the cooked fish and put the pieces on the grill rack. To make this recipe vegan use vegan pastry, omit the cheese or use vegan cheese, and use soy, rice or almond milk instead of the egg to seal the pastry. Medieval cooks invented creative recipes for wealthy diners during fast periods – including mock hard-boiled eggs made of coloured almond paste inside blown shells for Lent, when dairy was prohibited! For the two great feasts at Easter and Christmas, preparations had to start months ahead, when preserves were ordered and made. Take Creme a gode cupfulle, & put it on a straynour, thanne take yolkes of Eyroun, and put ther-to, & a lytel mylke; then strayne it throw a straynour in-to a bolle; then take Sugre y-now, put ther-to, or ellys hony forde faute of Sugre, than coloure it with Safroun; than take thin cofyns, & put it in the ovynne letre, & tat hem ben hardyd; than take a dyssche y-fastenyd on the pelys ende, & pore thin comade in-to the dyssche, & fro the dyssche in-to the cofyns; & whan they don a-ryse wet, teke hem out, ee serue hem forth. Food has been central to the social life of humans for thousands of years and, in medieval Europe, food consumption ranged from everyday sustenance to extravagant feasts. At home it is likely that the fictional narrator of the book, who kept a well-furnished table, would serve a large double-crust pasty or plate pie – but on his journeys to and from the farm, small ones probably seemed more suitable. Turn the mixture into a heavy saucepan, and stir over very low heat, below the boil, until it is the consistency of softly whipped cream. Stir the saffron, salt and spices into the stock, adjusting the quantity of salt if required, then pour the mixture over the vegetables. Soak the saffron in 2 tbsp water until the water is deep gold in colour. Stir in most of the chopped dates and pine nut kernels and stir for 2 more minutes. She is currently a health & fitness writer for Cheat Sheet and previously worked as the editorial manager of Edible Jersey Magazine. vnce; de tout soit fait powdour &c. Piment was the general name for sweetened spiced wines in the Middle Ages. Cook gently, covered, for about 20 minutes or until segments of firm cabbage are tender. Bake ‘blind’ in a preheated oven at 200°C for 15–20 minutes, then remove the filling of dried beans and return the case to the oven at about 160°C for 6–8 minutes until dried out and firm. • 450g home-made or bought shortcrust pastry, thawed if frozen• 450g button mushrooms• Pinch of salt• 2 tbsp olive oil• 50g Cheddar cheese, grated• 1⁄2 tsp salt• 1⁄8 tsp freshly ground black pepper• 1⁄4 tsp dry mustard powder• 1 egg, beaten. Cut them into bite-sized or serving portions and spoon some sauce over them. (They may look depressingly greyish but blending will improve the dish’s colour.) Take rote of persel, of pasternak, of rafens, scrape hem and waische him clene. Serve the steaks lightly sprinkled with cinnamon and any remaining sauce. Mix all the spices and herbs together. & do therto whit gres or swete botere & myed wastel bred, & cast therto good wyn & sugre, & salte it & stere it wel togedere, & dresse it in disches; and set theryn clowe gilofre, & strewe sugre aboue. If you like ginger, increase the quantity. Simmer, stirring steadily, until the purée is very thick. In a small saucepan, cream the rice flour or cornflour with 3 or 4 tbsp of fish cooking liquid, then heat the mixture gently until it thickens. Tak plays or fresch meluel or merlyng & seth it in fayre water, and then tak awey the skyn & the bones & presse the fisch in a cloth & bray it in a mortere, and tempre it vp with almond melk, & bray poudere of gynger & sugre togedere & departe the mortreux on tweyne in two pottes & coloure that on with saffroun & dresch it in disches, half of that on & half of that other, & strawe poudere of gyngere & sugre on that on & clene sugre on that other & serue it forth. If you don’t like ale or beer you can use cider instead. Put in a (non-medieval!) Put half the mixture into a separate bowl and tint it deep gold with the saffron water or food colouring. Simmer your ‘mix’ very gently for 10 minutes. Put the vegetables into a large pan of water and slowly bring to the boil. Put the stock into a stewpan and bring to the boil. Mortrews was a type of pottage or paté that contained either fish or meat, mixed with almonds. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Bake the little pies in the oven for 15–18 minutes. Great Russell Street Skim if needed, then add the prepared onions, herbs, spices, salt and wine. Strain through a jelly bag (which may take some hours). Lemony Grilled Salmon Fillets with Dill Sauce, Vanilla Bean Cake with White Chocolate Ganache, Mini Corn Muffins with Spicy Cheddar Filling, Nana's Chocolate Cupcakes with Mint Frosting, Do Not Sell My Personal Information – CA Residents. Beat the egg yolks lightly in a bowl, then beat in the cream, milk, sugar, saffron water and salt. These recipes are all from The Medieval Cookbook, by Maggie Black and published by British Museum Press, which includes more than 80 recipes adapted for the modern cook. Take wyne greke & hony clarified togider; take lumbarde mustard & raisouns coraunce, al hoole, & grynde powdour of canel, powdour douce & aneys hole, & fenell seed. Stir half this mixture into the wine, then taste and slowly add more until you achieve a flavour you like (you will probably need most, or all, of the mixture). Doucetes. Cast therto sugur, a gode porcioun; pynes, dates ymynced, canel, & powdour gynger; and seeth it, and alye it with flours of white rosis, and flour of rys. Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the fruit purée, breadcrumbs, remaining wine, sugar and salt. Trim off and discard the bottoms of the mushroom stems, then dip the mushrooms in boiling salted water, holding them in a sieve. Recipes from real home cooks, tested in our kitchens and delivered right to your inbox! Use two-thirds of the pastry to line small, deep pans. How to cook a medieval feast: 11 recipes from the Middle Ages, The Queen’s Gambit: how the Lewis Chessmen won the world over, 900g mixed parsley roots, carrots, radishes and turnips, 1⁄8 tsp each of ground cinnamon and black pepper, 600g firm-hearted cabbage or 700g open-hearted cabbage or spring greens, 225g white part of leeks, thinly sliced into rings, 1⁄4 tsp each of ground coriander, cinnamon and sugar, Flower heads of small clove pinks or gilded whole cloves (according to season), Shortcrust pastry made with 225g flour, 65g butter, 40g lard, and cold water to mix (use butter instead of lard to make this vegetarian), 10 dessert dates, stoned and finely chopped, 2 ltr red wine (check the label to ensure that ingredients are vegan if you want to make this recipe vegan), 1 tsp each ground cloves, grated nutmeg, marjoram (fresh if possible), ground cardamom, ground black pepper and a pinch of grated galingale (if available). • 900g boneless stewing lamb or mutton• 425ml chicken stock• 2 medium onions, peeled and finely chopped• 1 tbsp chopped parsley• 1/2–1 tsp each fresh rosemary leaves, thyme leaves, and savory or marjoram leaves, bruised in a mill (use less if using dried herbs)• 1/4 tsp each ground ginger, cumin and coriander• Salt to taste• 225ml white wine• 2 eggs• 2 tbsp lemon juice. Take an erthen panne with clene water & set it on the fire; cast all thise therinne. Wash and peel the root vegetables and slice them thinly. While the upper classes and their households enjoyed fresh and imported foods, the rest of the population had to live off what the local land could produce which, at the end of winter or in times of shortage, might be very little! Fill the mixture into the pastry cases. Pour 275ml of this liquid over the almonds in a bowl. Mix the sauce ingredients in a jug, adjusting the proportions if you wish. Put the rice flour or cornflour in a saucepan, and blend into it enough of the milk to make a smooth cream. Whan they buth boiled cast therto peeres & perboile hem wel. Buy the book here. This recipe is from the Medieval household book Le Ménagier de Paris (the Goodman of Paris). Open daily 10.00-17.30 Serve warm. Cut the meat into 5cm cubes. Press the fish under a cloth or kitchen paper to squeeze out excess moisture, then flake it. There were also annual fasts such as Rogation Days, Advent and Lent, which restricted diets. Chill until needed. United Kingdom. The Medieval household book Le Ménagier de Paris (the Goodman of Paris) suggested a chicken liver or meat mortrews, but this fish option would be a good substitute on ‘fysshe’ days when eating meat was forbidden. Mushrooms of one night are the best, if they are small, red inside, and closed at the top: and they should be peeled and then washed in hot water and parboiled, and if you wish to put them in a pasty add oil, cheese and spice powder. Serve the mortrews in six small bowls or plates, putting a coloured and a plain spoonful of mixture side by side in each. Julia Mullaney is a writer, blogger and self-proclaimed macaroni and cheese connoisseur based in New Jersey. A huge amount of preparation went into the creation of feasts. If thou wilt in stede of almounde mylke, take swete crem of kyne. electric blender, and add the sugar, spices and rose petals. Add the pastry to a 20cm pie plate or cake tin with a loose bottom, with a depth of 5cm. Nick the edges of the steaks and grease them. —Deirdre Cox, Kansas City, Missouri. The British Museum Take caboches and quarter hem, and seeth hem in gode broth with oynouns ymynced and the whyte of lekes yslyt and ycorue smale. Stir this ‘cream’ into the fish mixture and season with salt. Place the pan over low heat and stir until the mixture starts to thicken. Put enough salted water into a shallow pan to cover the fish and bring it to the boil. Add the meat and bring back to the boil. ... There’s no shortage of fresh peaches and raspberries where I live. WC1B 3DG. Put in the fish and simmer for a moment or two, then cover the pan and remove from the heat – the fish will continue to cook in the hot water while you make the sauce. Soluble gold gouache can be used to gild the tops of whole cloves, but don’t eat them as they are very strong – they’re just for decoration here. Drain them, pat dry, then chop or slice them. Tak cheryes & do out the stones & grynde hem wel & draw hem thorw a streynour & do it in a pot. Purée the fruit in a blender with 150ml of the wine and half the sugar. Free admission Rinse well, then add the currants. It could then easily be cut in pieces and eaten with a spoon. The French Medieval household book Le Ménagier de Paris (the Goodman of Paris), has quite a lot to say about cabbages, from the small spring sprouts for salads to the frostbitten winter leaves. Fridays until 20.30, The British Museum Take rapes & caboches, ypared and ycorue. Chow down at simplydeliciousblog.com or on Instagram at @simplydeliciousblogger. Take the petals off the rose one by one. Take veel other[wise] motoun and smyte it to gobettes. Cover with vinegar-proof seals and store. In old dishes the cook is usually told to ‘drawe’ a fish, animal or bird, so this recipe interprets ‘yopened’ to mean that the fish or meat should be cut open and boned. Then grill the steaks as you prefer. And while meat is clearly a feature, there are a surprising number of vegan and vegetarian dishes, so there’s something for everyone. Peel, core and cut up the pears and add them to the pan. Take Venyson or Bef, & leche & gredyl it vp broun; then take Vynegre & a litel verious, & a lytil Wyne, and putte pouder perpir ther-on y-now, and pouder Gyngere; and atte the dressoure straw on pouder Canelle y-now, that the stekys be al y-helid ther-wyth, and but a litel; Sawce & then serue it forth. Remember a cake tin is deeper than a pie plate so the case in it may need longer baking than usual. Cook until they start to soften. Add a little more wine if you need to. The Wenatchee Valley's numerous orchards, fruit stands and annual Apple Blossom Festival have garnered the area the title of "Apple Capital of the World." Turn into a glass or decorative bowl and cool. Stir in the remaining milk. Take thyk milke; sethe it. Take alle thise thynges & cast togyder in a pot of erthe, & take thereof whan thou wilt & serue forth. Decorate the tops with pastry trimmings and brush with the remaining egg. Happy cooking! Great Russell St London The French Medieval household book Le Ménagier de Paris (the Goodman of Paris) had recipes for pickling walnuts and various vegetables and fruits grown on the fictional writer’s farm, but he soaked the whole lot in honey – probably ruining the teeth of everyone in his household! 14th century. Shal be yopened & ywasshe clene & ysode & yrosted on a gridel; grind peper & saffron, bred and ale mynce oynons, fri hem in ale, and do therto, and salt: boille hit, do thyn haddok in plateres, and the ciuey aboue, and ghif forth. Pack into sterilised storage jars, with at least 2.5cm headspace. Warm the sauce and sprinkle a few drops over the meat while grilling it. Process until fully blended, then add and blend in the cream and salt. 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