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Making Wine and Eating Gold – The History of the New World
More from La Historia del Mondo Nuovo di M. Girolamo Benzoni Milanese, Venetia, 1565 (an English translation published by the Hakluyt Society, 1857, and extracted below, is here in its entirety)
Of those whom they caught alive especially the captains they used to tie the hands and feet throw them down on the ground and pour [...]
Apple Fritters, Eden, and Ale Batter
It’s basically a beer batter with apples – I used a bit of saffron for color and added a touch of active dry yeast to a 1/4 cup of warmed beer to make sure that it would rise enough. You can also make the batter the night before and it will usually rise a [...]
Christmas Goose
I’d never cooked a goose before, but figured it would be a lot like cooking a duck – it is, but with a couple of caveats:
Duck is fatty enough – and the fat is well distributed enough – that it’s pretty hard to dry it out. Goose probably produces more fat when you cook [...]
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