Great Site for Medieval Cooking

Gode Cookery is a great site that features medieval food. The site says, "Medieval cooking was not, as has been so easily assumed, a dubious practice that produced inedible dishes filled with strange spices and dangerous ingredients. Medieval cooks used many of the same type of foodstuffs that are in use today, in addition to forms of food preparation familiar to any of us." We can find all sorts of information here about medieval cooking, especially recipes (all recipes are presented in the original language and then in modern English). Here are a few of the recipes listed: · a late 15th century recipe called capons in dorre (toasted bread in almond milk) · a 14th century recipe called crispels ("round pastries basted in honey") · a 14th century recipe for fried spinach · a 15th century recipe called Hattes ("small meat-filled pastries that resemble medieval hats") There are also illusion foods (foods meant to resemble something else, either in the way it looked or the way it tasted). An example of an illusion food would be stuffed omelettes made into flowers or the above-mentioned hattes. There is also a glossary of medieval cooking terms, lots of great links, and much more. This is definitely a site I'll be revisiting. Via Incoming Signals.