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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 [...]