Gingerbread recipe from the middle ages:
Gyngerbrede
Take a quart of hony, & sethe it, & skeme it clene; take
Safroun, pouder Pepir, & þrow ther-on; take gratyd Brede,
& make it so chargeaunt þat it wol be y-leched; þen take
pouder Canelle, & straw þer-on y-now; þen make yt square,
lyke as þou wolt leche it; take when þou lechyst hyt,
an caste Box leaves a-bouyn, y-stkyd þer-on, on clowys.
And if þou wolt haue it Red, coloure it with Saunderys y-now.
From 'A Boke of Gode Cookery'
James Matterer's collection of
medieval recipes which he has translated
and adapted for the modern cook
via
link
'Beekeeper' by Sebastian Münster (1488-1552)
link
2 comments:
Hello ,
I'm a beekeeper and very interested in the beautiful picture of the medieval woman beekeeper with the bear.
Do you know it's origin and the book were it is from?
Would love to know it too!
Kind regards,
Rinske
hi Rinske,
Sorry for the late answer..I've just ended my summer holiday....
I'm sorry I can't help you...I've tried to find the orgiginal sourse of this image...but I can't. It has been posted a number of times on the Internet, but no one links to a book or library...or anything like that. Actually it is rather typical when it comes to medieval illuminations on the Internet, I think...they are often posted without a source or even a link.
Best wishes,
Mette
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