Food and Drink

Baking

Student Research

This  was a time without ice boxes, refrigerators, or freezers.  Canning didn't exist. So how did people preserve food and store it to use in the winter?

Preparing a Feast

[This is an article from Cariadoc's Miscellany. The Miscellany is Copyright (c) by David Friedman and Elizabeth Cook, 1988, 1990, 1992. For copying details, see the Miscellany Introduction.]

 

To Prepare a Most Honorable Feast

by Maistre Chiquart

translated by Elizabeth of Dendermonde

And first, God permitting to be held a most honorable feast at which are kings, queens, dukes, duchesses, counts, countesses, princes, princesses, marquis, marquises, barons, baronesses and lords of lower estate, and nobles also a great number, there are needed, for the ordinary cookery(1) and to make the feast honorably, to the honor of the lord who is giving the said feast, the things which follow.  more...

Webbed by Gregory Blount of Isenfir

Food and Drink

In the castle kitchen the cook and his helpers turned the meat  on a spit  and prepared stews and soups in great iron cauldrons hung over the fire on a hook and chain that could be raised and lowered to regulate the temperature. Boiled meat was lifted out of the pot with an iron meat hook, a long fork with a wooden handle and prongs attached to the side.  more...


This illustration from The Lutrell Psalter shows both a meat hook and a slotted spoon.