Almond Chicken Soup

Culina vetus on 2025-10-16
We do not have a lot of soup recipes surviving, and this one from Balthasar Staindl looks like it will even be tasty: To make chicken broth of almonds clxxviii) Take half a pound of almonds, three small egg yolks … Continue reading → read more

Re-Shaped Chicken Legs

Culina vetus on 2025-10-14
Here is another recipe from Staindl’s cookbook that goes back to a deep tradition: To make a chicken ‘put back on the bone’ (angelegts Huen) clxxi) Take a hen of a capon, either old or young, cut it apart, remove … Continue reading → read more

The Pear Juice Experiment

Culina vetus on 2025-10-12
Over two years ago, I posted a recipe for pear juice reduction from the Oeconomia ruralis et domestica by Johannes Coler. It read thus: Pear juice is made thus (marginalia: to make pear juice) Take juicy pears such as Speckbirn … Continue reading → read more

Tongue Pickled with Beetroots

Culina vetus on 2025-10-10
This is a really interesting recipe from Balthasar Staindl, but I am not at all sure I am reading it right. To make a pickled tongue clxviii) Take a tongue, cut the hind part (troß) and the (attached) meat off … Continue reading → read more

Gele Pechplumin: persona research

The lazy reenactor girl on 2025-10-6
During the days of the recent conclave, I did some quick persona research and checked which pope that would’ve been “my” pope during the decade from when my name is. Pechplumin is a Germanic name from a source from 1495, which led me to Pope read more

On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names

Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources on 2025-10-2
Though this blog has been rather quiet for rather longer than we might have liked, this doesn’t mean work isn’t being done…it’s just quiet, background work. But there’ve been some exciting projects happening over the summer, so look out for future read more

September 2025 Craft Update

Lia's Continued Crafts on 2025-9-30
Red Petticoat Progress This month I continued on my New Red Petticoat. I basted the bodice together on the seam lines and tried to put it on, which showed me that the one cm extra seam allowance I had added on the sides was absolutely necessary. It read more

Echoes

The Irish Ages on 2025-9-22
At the moment echoes of the past ages about Ireland, food, plants, animals etc deems that there are bundles of books gathered in bunches to apply to different projects or echoes. Food looking at the moment moves between monasteries, Vikings, read more

The sacrifices I make for my research

An Everyday Italian on 2025-9-18
 So...it turns out that medieval style wines - clairet, specifically - are staging a tiny comeback*, so of course I bought some. For SCIENCE. But before I just toss around my opinions (since wine is mostly about opinions) here are a few things to read more

Skördefest

Kareina's observations on 2025-9-16
 Since the event had started on Thursday, but neither of us asked for Friday off of work, (having only just returned from three weeks in Norway, which used up most what was left of our vacation time) we didn't head to site till Friday after read more

Feast at Champions of Lough Devnaree 2025

The Joy of Seax on 2025-9-14
Champions of Lough Devnaree has just taken place, and I did a pre-Norman Irish feast. I had two things in mind for this; one was to run a meal that represented a feast day in an elite household, but not a major event - of which there were plenty in read more

Crown List

Drachenwald Blog on 2025-9-14
Autumn Crown Tourney List On behalf of Their Majesties, King Krake and Queen Beatrix, I’m pleased to announce the competitors in the Autumn Crown Tourney in Depedene under Wychwood, to determine the next heirs to our beloved Kingdom: Duke Lief read more

Red and Gold 2025

SCA Osterreich - Schwertkampf on 2025-9-7
Auch in diesem Jahr durften wir bei unseren Freunden im benachbarten Shire Meadowmarsh (Hessen) beim größten Freiluft-Event der SCA in Deutschland zu Gast sein. Neben Schwertkampf in verschiedenen Turnieren war […] Der Beitrag Red and Gold 2025 read more

Pretend it’s June

Lidian Dyers Association - SCA Dyers of Lough Devnaree and beyond on 2025-9-6
Strawberry Raid at Sigginstown Castle happened then, and the very excellent Gertrude Hoode of Dun in Mara had suggested we do a joint project for the weekend where we dyed samples every day at the event and ended up with a rainbow. We bought a read more

August 2025 Crafts

Lia's Continued Crafts on 2025-8-31
August was not a weaving month. Instead I laid out my Laurel Cape of much Bling on the table and started working on it properly. I stitched down the big central badge first, then started on the wreath. A quick test showed I needed many more leaves. read more

 

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