• Robert May’s piquant butter sauce

    Robert May’s piquant butter sauce

    To boil a Capon or Chicken with Colliflowers Cut off the buds of your flowers, and boil them in milk with a little mace till they be very…

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  • A Blast from the Past – Gervase Markham’s jumbals

    A Blast from the Past – Gervase Markham’s jumbals

    This is probably the very first worked-out recipe that Taddea di Giorgio and I put together– back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and we were Therese and Adele.…

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  • Quinces, quinces, quinces

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  • A Pumpkin Tourte

    A Pumpkin Tourte

    This is a slightly edited version of a recipe redaction I created for the 2025 Ealdormere Cooks’ Calendar. I chose the month of October, and here in Canada,…

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  • Scappi’s Month of May

    Scappi’s Month of May

    Moving on with Scappi’s Opera, here is my translation of Book IV, the Month of May. We continue to enjoy the springtime delights of lamb, kid, and every…

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  • Epic pizza

    Epic pizza

    This is a slightly adapted version of a recipe redaction I created for the 2024 Kingdom of Ealdormere Cooks’ Calendar. Table of Contents To make a layered round…

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