Tag Archives: Recipe of the Week

The last post was a plain mead or hydromel (honey and water only). Roughly 20% of the recipes I have cataloged to date are for plain mead. That does not mean they are devoid of interest, the proportions of honey, … Continue reading →

Our recipe this week goes back to basic hydromel. The recipe comes from this text. Occo, Adolf. (1575). Pharmacopoeia seu Medicamentarium pro Republica Augustana. Willerus: Johann Georg Werdenstein. Retrieved from Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=YEA6AAAAcAAJ .See p.282 of the book for our … Continue reading →

Charles Estienne, also known as Carolus Stephanus was born in 1504 and died in 1564. As a physician, he is credited with discovering the spinal canal and wrote about human anatomy. He was involved in printing in Paris. Relative to … Continue reading →

The fifth and final recipe from UPenn Ms. Codex 252, known as the Maddison Family Receipt Book, is for something I do not consider mead, but which is called mead in the text, and which serves as a good mechanism … Continue reading →

The fourth recipe from UPenn Ms. Codex 252, known as the Maddison Family Receipt Book, is for ‘meade’. Transcription of manuscripts requires some practice. While printing typefaces for English language books of the 17th century are relatively easy for the … Continue reading →

The third recipe from UPenn Ms. Codex 252, known as the Maddison Family Receipt Book, is for ‘white metheglin’. Among its 17 named flavor additions is musk, which is derived from a gland of the male musk deer (by killing … Continue reading →

The second recipe from UPenn Ms. Codex 252, known as the Maddison Family Receipt Book, is for lemon rosemary mead. This manuscript is typical in containing both medical and culinary recipes. While some manuscripts are almost completely medical, or almost … Continue reading →

A Small Pomegranate (Credit Tomomarusan) Today’s recipe is for the first batch of mead I made as part of my current efforts to research and re-create historical meads was started November of 2016. This was after I had already spent … Continue reading →

The bad news is I missed a week. The good news is, this week’s recipe could be argued to be 4 recipes in one. We are near the end of our Dioscorides mead recipes. One more after this. 1516 Baptista/Barolo … Continue reading →