Redaction of historic recipes (mainly Middle Eastern and Roman). Historically period dishes are incredibly tasty, just requires a little experimentation and having a lot of fun cooking!
For my birthday, I received a few books. One of which was a cooking/court life book. I was a little hesitant as cookbooks and court books are usually separated into different books. I am...
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...
After coming home from Pennsic 2012 , a very wet year, I am all but bouncing to do MORE cooking. I can not wait to break into two of the 3 books I bought. ...
I was once told “Cooking isn’t hard. Period cooking isn’t that hard.” I was…shocked. The person who made this proclamation was missing the entire point of period cooking. Period cooking is not about throwing...
So this month has been working on recipes for the upcoming Kingdom A&S competition. Yeah…well I have part of the recipes down but this year’s project isn’t going to happen in February. The reason,...
This post was originally put into another post which is well buried now. Almond milk is not a stable to all soups, broths or drinks but it’s not uncommon either. I thought a quick...
Qarmush (Buttered Triangles) Translation: Take a pound of flour and knead it with water and milk. You break two eggs in it, their yolks and whites, and knead it well. Spread finely milled starch...
There are now pictures to go with this posting! Yay…plums are in season (or at least available now)!!!
Quick update…the flu has struck in redaction land. While I do have several projects with pictures to post…things will have to wait a few more days. Sorry for the delays!
