Archive for November, 2009
Guess the 4 zzinis that make u…
Guess the 4 zzinis that make up tetrazzini and win a cruditas t-shirt (er, when we have t-shirts)
This, of course, leads us back…
This, of course, leads us back to the navel question, but that’s outside my bailiwick.
All navel oranges derive from …
All navel oranges derive from a single mutant from a monastery orchard; Brazil, 1820.
Spit Roasting a Pheasant is Time Consuming
Bartolomeo Scappi is the second, after Maestro Martino di Como, of the great Italian Renaissance cooks (though it can be argued that Scappi was the first to make a break with medieval cookery dogma). He was the personal chef for two popes, and assembled his Opera to instruct his apprentices in their work. His cookbook [...]
What’s for Lunch? Bunyols!
There are recipes that survive and evolve over the years – blankmange goes from being a chicken/rice version of oatmeal, to a sauce for chicken, to, over the centuries, an almond custard; recipes that become extinct as the forces of superior techniques and fashion weed them out of cook books like eel pie, lamprey turnovers, [...]
Bird Turnovers and Asparagus from Sent Soví
Written sometime in the middle of the 14th century, The Book of Sent Soví is one of the earliest records of Catalan cuisine. Bird Turnovers: Si vols fer panades d’aucells o de perdius ab ceba, pren una ceba, la pus gran que tròpies, e mit-la dins, segons que vijares te serà; e mit-hi los ocells [...]
Jakke of Dovere
This was one of the last Eating Chaucer dishes and was served at the Pazzo Books arrivederci Roslindale party. For many a pastee hastow laten blood and many a Jakke of Dovere hastow sold That hath been twice hoot and twice cold Prologue to the Cokes tale Cooks would let blood out of pies – [...]
Kürtőskalács (the sine qua …
Kürtőskalács (the sine qua non of these cakes) was originally made on chimney pipes! Thanks @mbattles who wins first cake off the pipes!
You could do a corn dog like t…
You could do a corn dog like this! RT @mbattles in Hungary, Kürtöskalács, made with dough not batter—on rolling pins! http://bit.ly/7wN0Gk
http://twitpic.com/qbpej – In …
http://twitpic.com/qbpej – In Lithuania it’s spiky (and often gigantic) and called Šakotis
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