Season 2020
How to Make Medieval Cheese
I'll show you step by step and give a bit of the history of cheese, from Egypt, to Greece, to WWII and Nixon. Learn how we went from curdled milk in a sheep stomach to the wide world of cheese we know today.
Baking A Medieval Cheesecake - The History of the Sambocade
In this episode, I make a medieval elderflower cheesecake - a Sambocade. I explore how this dessert is the link between the ancient cheesecake given to Greek Olympians and the modern NY style cheesecake we love today.
Making 400 Year Old Buttered Beere
In this episode, I show you how to make your own alcoholic (and non-alcoholic) Buttered Beere and we explore the importance of beer and ale in Medieval and Renaissance England.
Cooking Medieval Dessert for Lent: Bruet of Almaynne in lente
I show you how to make your own almond milk and look at the medieval diet during Lent and other fasting. I also explore some of the ways people made sure they could still eat well while observing their fast, even if that mean considering a beaver a fish.
Apple Muse for the Plague - The Four Humors
Weird Cures for the Black Plague - Candied Horseradish
What does a 1920s BIRTHDAY CAKE taste like?
How to Make a MEDIEVAL TRENCHER - Torte Bread
Cooking A CAPON Dish For A Medieval King - Sweet Measure
Making Medieval Fig Spread - Rapé - History of the Fig
Making a Medieval TART DE BRY (Brie Tart) - Brie: The King of Cheese
Anglo-Saxon Oatcakes - How Not To Burn King Alfred's Cakes
The Softest Bread In England - How To Make 18th Century Sally Lunn Buns
How to Bake Medieval Rastons - The Life of a Miller
History's Fluffiest Dessert! - Everlasting Syllabub
Cooking from THE FORME OF CURY: England's First Cookbook - Galyntyne Sauce
I finally made GARUM - Ancient Rome's favorite condiment
Oldest Cookbook in the West - APICIUS - Ancient Roman Mussels
A Tart to Topple a King - Lombardy Custard
A Dish for the First 4th of July... and why it should be on the 2nd.
The Poisonous History of Tomatoes - Pomodori Farciti all’Erbette (1773)
The Bread of ANCIENT ROME - Pompeii's Panis Quadratus
Making Hippocras at Home - Medieval Spiced Wine
Civil War Bread Pudding
KYKEON - The Drink of Greek Heroes
Payasam - Medieval India & Dessert for the King
The Wonderful History of Pancakes
Loseyns - Medieval English Lasagna!
The Strange Flavor of Parthian Chicken from Ancient Rome
FARTS OF PORTINGALE - A Shakespearean Treat
Quesadillas Cernidas & Aztec Maize
Yuanxiao from the Ming Dynasty
Precedella - 1500's Pretzels made with Wine
Spartan BLACK BROTH - Melas Zomos
Scappi's Renaissance Herb Torte
The History of Sugar Part 1 - Medieval Arabian Pistachio and Rose Candy
The History of Sugar Part 2 - Victoria Punch
Soul Cakes & Trick-or-Treating
Silphium: The Lost Aphrodisiac of Ancient Rome
Making Medieval Mead like a Viking
Pumpion Pie from 1670
What Did Medieval Peasants Eat?
Figgy Pudding - A Victorian Christmas Tradition
Unwrapping Aztec Tamales - The Tamale Wars
Celebrating Saturnalia with Cato's Globi
Making Medieval Gingerbread
Eggnog: A Christmas History
A 4000 Year Old Recipe for the Babylonian New Year