RecipeMuncher

A few months ago I helped cater a renaissance feast for 138 people. I have realised that I have neglected to share with you my recipes! How terrible am I? People often ask me, when I tell them that I cook medieval and renaissance food “what did people eat apart from big joints of roasted meat?”. Well, here is a wickedly lavish salad that proves that there was SO much more to the renaissance palate than lumps of flesh! Compound Sallet [The English Hous-wife, 1615]: To compound an (...)