Archive for June, 2010
A Brief History of Sauce Espagnole [née Partridge Sauce Espagnole]
The earliest recipe I’ve found for sauce Espagnole is in François Massialot’s Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois which first appeared in 1691 – the edition is from 1705, but there wasn’t a revised edition until 1712. Massialot’s appears under the recipe “Perdrix sausse à L’Espagnole” or Partridge sauce Espagnole and calls for Burgundy wine, partridge and [...]
Rolled, Grilled, Polish Steaks with Sauce Espagnole
Filets de Boeuf grillés à la Polonoise. Vous Prenez un filet de Boeuf motifié, vous le parez, le coupez en deux & en levez plusieurs feuilles, que vous étendez, en les battant; vous avez une farce de foyes gras que vous mettez dessus, & les roulez feuille par feuille, & les mettez griller en les [...]
Chiles verdes rellenos (picadillo)
Recipe taken from Encarnación’s Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California itself a translation of Encarnación Pinedo’s, El cocinero español (San Francisco, 1898), the first Spanish language cookery text published in California. Pinedo presents her recipes as Spanish (despite the profusion of Mexican ingredients) and in the European tradition traced from Apicius (whom she names) through [...]
Found some nice donkey recipes…
Found some nice donkey recipes, just in case: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5446377h
Schedule of North End feasts h…
Schedule of North End feasts http://bit.ly/dDxhDI via @universalhub
No CSF fish delivery today, an…
No CSF fish delivery today, and I here I was hoping for lamprey. http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1663/04/04/
I’d eat that – “Cave art may d…
I’d eat that – “Cave art may depict bird which went extinct 40,000 years ago” http://goo.gl/fb/vR0zX via @historytweeter
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