Curye on Inglysch
This book is as period as you can get with out actually going back a few centuries or so. Yet it is one of my least favorite books. Now this isn’t because the recipes...
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The Classical Cookbook
This is a Roman cookbook written by Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger. Sally Grainger is noted for having written and published Cooking Apicus. I can not tell if she wrote the later half of...
More books!!!
Before heading out of town I’m going to do a quick review of four books I’ve purchased in the last 3 months. All have their pluses and minuses for period cooking and research. Each...
Boiled Octopus
This recipe is short sweet and very Roman. They liked their seafood as much then as we do today. The tastes may not have always been the same but for a high dinner Primus,...
White Wine with Honey
Since I’ve been on a Roman kick for a bit and have a few more recipes to post, I’m going to do a little some thing different today. Most of the recipes I post...
Roman Cooking
Roman Cooking By Honorable Lady Sosha Lyon’s O’Rourke Intro: Roman cooking spans several centuries with a rich collection of recipes. Manuscripts depicting the Roman table are rare due to the age, delicacy of these...
Cybus (Cheese Bread)
It’s that time again…time to pull out the mixing bowl and make magic! This time we’re doing cheesey bread, in a period style no less. I like cheese and I really like bread, so...
Sweet Patinae (Nut Pudding)
Sweet Patinae Translation: An inverted patina: Roast pine nuts and chopped walnuts and grind with honey, pepper, and garum; milk and eggs and a bit of oil (Giacosa, pg 161) Turnover as a...
Giacosa NOT Herkotz
When I first started redacting, I did a common mistake in that I assumed that Herkotz was the author of the book A Taste of Ancient Rome. This is my mistake. The author is...
Panis Alexandrinus (Cumin and Honey Bread)
When I was doing the Roman research paper for Steppes Artisan (and Laural’s Prize Tourny), I was reading about the different breads eaten at banquets. One of the odder ones struck me as strange...