In medieval Ireland, Anglo-Normans hunted fallow deer in parks, while Gaelic Irish elites preferred big, wild red deer. This recipe from a culinary archaeologist would have worked for either.
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How to Make Buttery Twice-Baked Raston
Medieval Ireland had some quirky breads: from paindemain to bannock. Here’s a recipe for a rich and buttery raston, from a culinary archaeologist.
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How to Cook Medieval Muntelate
To start with “take veel other[wise] motoun and smyte it to gobettes”, an early version of this lamb recipe says.
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How to Cook Medieval Beef Pottage
In medieval Ireland, wealth was invested in cows, which were used to pay fines, rents, and pleas – and, of course, to serve in rich stews like this one.
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How to Cook Medieval-Style Fig and Raisin Compote
This month’s medieval recipe is from a fourteenth-century culinary manuscript, and might have once been cooked in an intriguing pot called a pipkin.
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How to Cook a Fourteenth-Century Pork Pie
Pastry goods in general were popular in the Middle Ages, and ranged from simple “chewets” to luxurious tall “Parma pies”. Here’s how to recreate a “flampoint”.
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How to Cook Chicken with Medieval Spices and Cinnamon
In medieval times, cinnamon would have travelled a long “spice route” through Europe to eventually sail in at an Irish port.
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Neighbours in Inchicore Make a Start on an Urban Orchard
Four of the trees in the public walled garden are Irish heritage apples – ones that almost died out, twice. There are plum and pear trees, too.
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How to Cook Medieval-Style Salmon Roast in Sauce
Here’s a Lenten recipe inspired by what the prior at Christ Church Cathedral may have eaten centuries back, from a culinary archaeologist at UCD.
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How to Cook Medieval Legume Girdle Breads
In her monthly column, Maeve L’Estrange shares how to recreate medieval Irish recipes. What might people once have cooked with dried pea?