Read a #medieval recipe for deep-fried, battered custard and you understand the deep heritage of State Fair snacks.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/27/fried-chunks-of-battered-custard/
#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #fried
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So, there is a recipe for what is pretty clearly #Baumkuchen from around 1500, and I nearly missed it because it is named like a roast custard. Naming stuff is hard...
How potato pancakes fell victim to austerity in the first World War, and how some pissed-off workers foiled a Putsch in 1920 because of things like that.
A recipe for fish in #aspic, and some thoughts on why Middle German insists on using the same words for jellies and bread sauces. Because of course it does.
Still more medieval and early modern recipes for filling cooked eggs back into their shells. These are called 'kroseier' and the name is not the oddest thing about them.
Being sick sucks, but having time for things is a comfort. The #fourteenth-century Rossauer Tischzucht explains how to eat soft-boiled eggs.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/07/19/a-fourteenth-century-poem-of-table-manners/
#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #medieval #socialhistory
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Of cherry soups
- Item you break the cherries off their stalks and set them by the fire with wine. Season them with sugar. White bread is fried in butter and the soup is poured over the same and sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
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Of redcurrant soups
- Item you prepare redcurrants with wine, with mace, small raisins, and sugar. Fry bread in butter and pour them over it. Then sprinkle it with mace and sugar.
A bit about pre-war and wartime pickled herring, and why it's important to not have maggots in navy rations if you want to keep your emperor.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/07/20/herring-and-kaiser-in-a-pickle-feeding-the-revolution-xxxi/
#culinaryhistory #foodhistory #eattherich #WorldWarOne
153 Filled eggs with nut kernels
Item filled eggs. Chop eggs and nut kernels together, and add soft eggs. Chop it small, fill it into the eggshells, roast them, and serve them.
55 If you would make filled roasted eggs, also prepare them in this way (des sins), and then you roast them on a skewer with their shells, and also chop the white etc.