People who ate butter and drank milk were once uncivilised uncouth outsiders. The Romans often commented on the inferiority of other cultures, and they took excessive milk drinking as evidence of barbarism. Similarly, butter was a useful ointment for burns; it was not a suitable food. As Pliny the Elder bluntly put it, butter is “the choicest food among barbarian tribes.” The Greeks called …
Traditional Thorramatur
You just can't beat a good Celebration - the anticipation, the gift-giving, the music and the mouth-watering traditional foods to mark the special occasion. Thorrablot is no exception. The Icelandic Midwinter festival extends from 19 - 25 January, the old month of Thorri, and originally honoured Thor. You don't have to wave a hammer about to have a good time and, even better, you don't have to …
Ryschewys close and fryez
To make Pyes The recipe from Henry's kitchen at Hampton Court is for a meat pye, but I made them with fruit only. Pyes of mutton or beif must be fyne mynced and ceasoned wyth pepper and salte, and a lyttle saffron to coloure it, suet or marrow a good quantite, a lyttle vyneger, prumes, greate raysins and dates, take the fattest of the broathe of powdred beyfe, and yf you wyll have paest …