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Food in Medieval Times. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-32147-7. Bynum, Caroline Walker (1987). Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-05722-8. Carlin, Martha; Rosenthal, Joel T., eds. (1998). Food and Eating in Medieval Europe. London: The ...
Medieval Italians also used eggs to a higher degree than many other regions, and the recipe collections describe herb omelettes (herboletos) and frittatas. Grapes as tasty morsels and lemons as a cooking ingredient was ubiquitous and, of course, olive oil of every conceivable kind was the cooking fat of choice in all regions, including the ...
The Stratford feast in the 15th century took place on a meat day, but based on expenditures it appears that some persons chose to eat fish. Wheat was purchased, sometimes in amounts over five quarters (perhaps 60 kg), to bake (sometimes very large) loaves of bread, though by the second half of the 15th century the bread was baked by local bakers instead of at the guild's bakehouse.
Frumenty (sometimes frumentee, furmity, fromity, or fermenty) was a popular dish in Western European medieval cuisine.It is a porridge, a thick boiled grain dish—hence its name, which derives from the Latin word frumentum, "grain".
At a feast in 1343 dedicated to Pope Clement VI, one of the entremets was a castle with walls made from roast birds, populated with cooked and redressed deer, wild boar, goat, hare, and rabbit. [ 9 ] In the 14th century, entremets began to involve not just eye-catching displays of high-status cuisine, but also more prominent and often highly ...
The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking, cury from Old French queuerie, 'cookery') [2] is an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes.Although the original manuscript is lost, the text appears in nine manuscripts, the most famous in the form of a scroll with a headnote citing it as the work of "the chief Master Cooks of King Richard II".
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Cockentrice is a dish consisting of a suckling pig's upper body sewn onto the bottom half of a capon. [1] Alternately, the front end (head and torso) of the poultry is sewn to the rump of the piglet to not waste the other half. [2]