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This website claims to have translated recipes from the Boke of Cokery: http://godecookery.com/goderec/goderec.htm
Some old books like the one about cooking in TFA are ultra rare but others were printed in gigantic numbers and many copies persists to this day, so they can be fetched at relatively low prices (sometimes for a few hundreds bucks if you're lucky).
Here's the one I have (there are complete PDF scans of that book on the net as it's a really common one):
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fuchs+l+histoire+des+plantes&t=h_&...
It's sad that it's virtually impossible to find medieval food like this. All "medieval" restaurants (even in Europe) I know of either serve modern food in old digs, or random barbecue as a sideshow to jousting knights and whatnot.
https://www.kapitelhusgarden.se/en/menu/ (Gotland, Sweden) https://www.dengyldnesvane.dk/ (Falster, Denmark) https://www.sjattetunnan.se/?lang=en (Stockholm, Sweden)
At least the first has a couple of authentic-ish medieval desserts though.
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https://www.kapitelhusgarden.se/en/menu/ (Gotland, Sweden) https://www.dengyldnesvane.dk/ (Falster, Denmark) https://www.sjattetunnan.se/?lang=en (Stockholm, Sweden)
Yes, those are perfect examples of the kind of fake medieval I was talking about. For example, both feature roast chicken on the menu, but chicken was rarely if even eaten before the 1900s. The few that were for laying eggs, meaning they were butchered only after many years and were thus a far cry from the plump KFC type chickens we see today. (Which is also why the most famous French chicken/rooster dish, coq au vin…
You'll also find the food of the nobility, or feast days, as it isn't much fun to eat bread and gruel.
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https://www.kapitelhusgarden.se/en/menu/ (Gotland, Sweden) https://www.dengyldnesvane.dk/ (Falster, Denmark) https://www.sjattetunnan.se/?lang=en (Stockholm, Sweden)
Yes, those are perfect examples of the kind of fake medieval I was talking about. For example, both feature roast chicken on the menu, but chicken was rarely if even eaten before the 1900s. The few that were for laying eggs, meaning they were butchered only after many years and were thus a far cry from the plump KFC type chickens we see today. (Which is also why the most famous French chicken/rooster dish, coq au vin…
Not trying to be difficult, but that font seems to have some historical implications we should rather not glorify.
What are you referring to?
Comyne sounds like it could be popular nowadays.
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What are you referring to?
The font is Blackletter, which was widely used in Europe, but specifically Germany kept using it until 1941, when Nazis abolished its use. But since Germans used the font, and nazis were German, people think that the font is bad, and should not be used. Similarly, since nazis tended to be clean-shaven and not grow beards, it is well-known that every right-thinking man today must grow a beard to avoid signalling their…
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What are you referring to?
The font is Blackletter, which was widely used in Europe, but specifically Germany kept using it until 1941, when Nazis abolished its use. But since Germans used the font, and nazis were German, people think that the font is bad, and should not be used. Similarly, since nazis tended to be clean-shaven and not grow beards, it is well-known that every right-thinking man today must grow a beard to avoid signalling their…
Not trying to be difficult, but that font seems to have some historical implications we should rather not glorify.
Most older German books and newspapers, regardless of point of view, were typeset in Fraktur.
[0]https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/friedrich-ebert-st...
[1]https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/%E2%80%9Evorw%C3%A4r...
There's a whole site devoted to Weimar Era (1919-1933) era political campaign posters[3], and just about every party, left, right and center, used Fraktur on occasion - and to be fair to the parent commenter, repeatedly by a certain someone complaining about being cancelled[4][5][6]
[3]http://www.wahlplakate-archiv.de/
[4]http://www.wahlplakate-archiv.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/...
[5]http://www.wahlplakate-archiv.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/...
[6]http://www.wahlplakate-archiv.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/...
