Pork Roast served Northern Renaissance Style

Culina vetus on 2026-7-7
Continuing the list of roast recipes from Franz de Rontzier begun yesterday, here is the section on pork. Note the author makes no distinction between domestic pig and wild boar. The two were much more similar then than they are … Continue reading → read more

Serving Roast Beef Northern Renaissance Style

Culina vetus on 2026-7-6
Roasting is generally something that historic recipe sources assume as a given; You take a piece of meat, stick it on a spit, and put it by the fire. Everybody who has ever tried it knows that there is a … Continue reading → read more

First, invent the universe

Nuncheon - Adventures in Medieval Cooking on 2026-7-5
Reader, Stuff Happened. It's been almost four years to the day that I last posted in this blog. I continued to cook at SCA events until at the end of 2023 I decided to take a a sabbatical. I was too close to the trees to see the forest, and I felt I read more

My green silk 14th century gown on a tower in Wales

Eva's historical costuming blog on 2026-6-30
 I had bought some of Alfhild's fabric from her widover, my friend Matti, and in a moment of madness I made a dress from green silk that used to be hers to wear at the funeral. I made it in less than three days. The seams are sewn on machin, but read more

A Pair of Villanelles

The Joy of Seax on 2026-6-23
On the ferry on the way to and from Drachenwald’s Midsummer Coronation, I wrote two villanelles. It’s not a difficult form, in a technical sense - the repeating lines mean there isn’t as much to write as you might think, and you’ve already set the read more

Reflections

Magdalena's kitchen on 2026-6-16
 It has been nearly a year since I last updated this blog. Not because I haven't done anything but because I just haven't thought about it. Time moves along whether I take note of it or not. I have been to events, read cook books, consulted on food read more

Teaching Cooking by Doing Cooking

The Joy of Seax on 2026-6-9
I teach a class at Strawberry Raid (and indeed, have taught it at other camping events) most years. It’s about how to cook a meal in a camp kitchen, including lighting the fire, managing the fire, selecting a recipe from a text, interpreting it read more

The Medieval Poetic Forms Project

The Joy of Seax on 2026-6-5
This is a new meta-project, provoked in equal part by the difficulty I had in composing verse in the Welsh cywydd form, and by the Laurel Sponsored Prize Display at Strawberry Raid V in which I talked about that and other poetic forms.The plan is to read more

A Deibhidhe

The Joy of Seax on 2026-6-5
A DeibhidheI’ve written up the rules of the deibhidhe form. It’s not an easy one to write in; the first couple of lines are easy, but the constraints increase as you go. For the first line, you just need seven syllables and some alliteration. By the read more

Irish Medieval Poetry Forms: Deibhidhe

The Joy of Seax on 2026-6-4
As part of what will become the The Medieval Poetic Forms Project, I’m digging into Irish Medieval Poetry Forms. There are many; a lot of the surviving texts are poetry, or at least poetic. I’ve poked triads before, too.The form I’m currently read more

Strawberry Raid Sestina

The Joy of Seax on 2026-6-3
Strawberry Raid SestinaFor the Laurel Sponsored Prize Display at Cudgel Wars last year, I wrote a set of triads. For the same at Strawberry Raid this year, I wrote a sestina. Sestinas are a slight step away from my usual sonnets, but still use read more

Strawberry Raid V, 2026

The Joy of Seax on 2026-6-3
This isn’t so much an event report as an index post, from which I can link more posts as I make them. You can expect posts on:Thoughts on Camp CoordinationTeaching Cooking by Doing CookingThe Medieval Poetic Forms ProjectSestinas, with one I wrote read more

The herb corner

The Irish Ages on 2026-5-25
For years my one interest in gardening Is herbs and edible flowers. I have some success and some almighty failures, the majority of herbs are grown in pots, all requiring attention one pot at a time. In full bloom This morning in the heat I moved read more

 

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