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Thanksgiving: Wherein a chicken rides a turkey to dinner and a pumpkin pie is filled with cheese
I have a very understanding family:
To make various mixtures with which to stuff every sort of commonly eaten animal, quadraped and fowl. Get four pounds of pork fat that is not rancid and with knives beat it finely together with two pounds of liver of a goat kid…adding in beaten mint, sweet marjoran, burnet [...]
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 [...]
Blank maunger
Blancmange (no one knows how to spell it) is one of the rare medieval recipes that has survived to the present day, though not without some major revisions. What was once a chicken and rice suspension sweetened with sugar and flavored with cinnamon, anise, and almonds, is now a gelatin aided frequently almond custard. [...]
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