English savory tart recipe. Take neshe chese and pare hit and grynd hit yn A morter and breke egges and do ther to and then put yn buttur and creme and mell all well to gethur put not to moche butter ther yn if the chese be fatte make A coffyn of dowe and close…
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Zabarbada [Zîrbâja] of Fresh Cheese
13th c Andalusian savory cheese spread recipe. Take fresh cheese, clean it, cut it up and crumble it; take cilantro and onion, chop and throw over the cheese, stir and add spices and pepper, stir the pot with two spoons of oil and an equal quantity of water and salt, then throw this mixture in…
White Pie, a cheesecake
Roman recipe for a ricotta pie with elder flowers. Elderberry Pie. Mix with elder flowers all the things which we have noted for white pie. The latter mixture ought to be, however, thicker than the former, because the flowers are distributed throughout. Although this dish is of little nourishment and is digested slowly, nevertheless it…
Turnips a la Beausse
14th c French turnip recipe. Turnips are hard and difficult to cook until they have been in the cold and frost; you remove the head, the tail and other whiskers and roots, then they are peeled, then wash in two or three changes of hot water, very hot, then cook in hot meat stock, pork,…
Spinach Cheese Tart
16th c German savory cheese tart recipe. Take spinach/ that has been nicely trimmed and washed clean/ cut it nicely small/ and rub it with salt/ wash it again (in) six or seven waters/ press it out well/ that the water is removed from the greens/ take new cheese/ that was made overnight/ some/many egg…
Spinach & Cheese Tart
14th/15th c Italian savory cheese tart recipe. XCV. Herb tart. If you want to make a herb tart for twelve people, take six large cheeses and take a large quantity of herbs, that is beet, parsley, spinach and mint, two pounds of salted lard and eight eggs. Take these well cleaned and chopped herbs that…
Mini Herb Quiches & Bacon Cheese Quiches
14th/15th C Italian quiche. XXXV Herbatella, a herb omelet, etc. If you want to make a herb dish cooked in a frying pan. Take mint, sage, parsley, marjoram and every good herb that you may have. Grind everything together in a mortar with lard and temper with eggs, and cook it thus in a frying…
Makerouns
14th C English pasta and cheese recipe. Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh, and kerue it on pieces, and cast hym on boiling water & seeþ it wele. Take chese and grate it, and butter imelte, cast bynethen and abouven as losyns; and serue forth. – Forme of Cury My Version I did…
Stuffed Eggs
A 14th century Andulasian stuffed egg recipe.