Capon Pastries

Culina vetus on 2024-4-10
I was writing about the capon pastry in Philippine Welser’s recipe collection we tried a few weeks ago, but the book actually contains several versions of capon or chicken pastries: 59 To make a capon pastry Prepare the pastry crust … Continue read more

Riding in Cars With Swedes: Secret-keeping Laurels edition

An Everyday Italian on 2024-4-8
Well, then.So, a lot has happened since my last post.Stanley Tucci started me down a rabbit hole of Alpine Italian food, which has led me to the House of Savoy in 15th C. France and a cookbook written by their Head Chef, but there will be other read more

Crafting week 13 & 14

Lia's Continued Crafts on 2024-4-7
Continuing with Perugia towels Having finished the first towel, I took a couple of days to remove the pattern I had picked up on eight half-heddles and pick up a new pattern row to weave a towel for my Husband. I ended up being quite pleased with read more

Herb Tart (with lots of sage)

Culina vetus on 2024-4-7
There is only time for a quick recipe today, so I will pick up a loose end from the crafting meeting: The green tart from the recipe collection of Philippine Welser. 52 If you want to make a tart of … Continue reading → read more

Lenten Dessert

Culina vetus on 2024-4-6
We followed the fish feast on Good Friday with a dessert of illusion foods: Pastries, bratwurst sausages, and porridge topped with fried lardons. All of them fit for Lent. The pastries are easiest: You simply fill them with something other … read more

Book of hours: April

The lazy reenactor girl on 2024-4-6
My series of Book of hours calendar activities-posts is still going strong! Each month, I’ll present a bunch of illustrations from different volumes that I’ve found that has a calendar section with images. A bunch of the different books has the same read more

The Good Friday Fish Feast

Culina vetus on 2024-4-5
A friend was able to source fresh trout for our gathering at the easter weekend, so I could finally try out some of my fish recipes on my unsuspecting fellow medievalists. The result was a Lenten spread that was both … Continue reading → read more

Letters from the Trees

Orlaith Chaomhanach on 2024-4-4
I’ve been putting this post of for an age because I’ve been reluctant to find out that a lot of what I thought was true about the subject would turn out to be Victorian fabrication, as this has been a far bigger element in my research in the last read more

Siculo-Norman Snack Beans

Culina vetus on 2024-4-3
I am still not finished writing up the fish feast we had on Good Friday, but here is a small thing I tried out on Saturday with our Sicilian Norman supper. It is based on a passage in Isaac Iudaeus … Continue reading → read more

More on Meat Pastries

Culina vetus on 2024-4-1
I am badly in arrears and promise to write up what I did over the Easter weekend, but there are still recipes and experiences from the Palm Sunday open. The main course of our meal that day were two meat … Continue reading → read more

In Praise of Chickens

Culina vetus on 2024-3-31
My apologies – again – for not writing anything in a week. It has been a very busy week, much of it good, but I have something big in store for Easter. Not only was I able to spend the … Continue reading → read more

Avsnitt 66 - Meeting Barbara and Lars

Nagonstans i Nordmark on 2024-3-30
In this episode we head to northern Knight's Crossing, and speak to Barbara von Krempe and Lars Thorgrimsson about finding the SCA, staying in it, going to Double Wars and how to stay warm in cold weather! read more

Back with a Bang!

Ava's Corner on 2024-3-25
It has been quite the year…. that is all I am going to say. I am seriously happy to be back at this campfire to share stories with you about projects and adventures, new and old. In the beautiful year 1960, when most of the readers of this blog read more

A Grape Juice Tart Experiment

Culina vetus on 2024-3-24
This Sunday, we had a meeting with local people from my medieval club to craft, sociaslise, and talk about our various projects. For me, it was an opportunity to try out a few recipes for an appreciative audience. Most were … Continue reading → read more

Crafts report wk 11 & 12

Lia's Continued Crafts on 2024-3-24
Week 11 – Mondays are for weaving – Perugia trials Well, almost anyway. I spent most of the day re-creating a 2×2 cross at the back stretcher bar, moved the raddle out of the way and put the first set of lease sticks behind the stretcher bar. The read more

The Colours of Medieval Ireland II – Tree based colours

Lidian Dyers Association - SCA Dyers of Lough Devnaree and beyond on 2024-3-17
There are no end of ways to make colour happen on cloth and wool, the trick is rather to make them stay there. The earliest forms of fixing colours come from what Bríd Mahon (Traditional Dyestuffs in Ireland from Gold Under the Furze) calls “crude read more

 

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