welcome to how to cook that i'm ann
ridden and today we are making recipes
from a scroll that is 600 years old
these are the first ever recipes to be
written down
in english they were recorded by the
master chefs for king richard
ii let's start with the creme
of almonds now you might notice that
this is really hard to read not just
because it's in calligraphy
but the spelling of the words is quite
different
to how we do it now so i'm going to get
some help
reading it creme of almond
take almond blanched grind
hem and draw him
up what's him
them ah but it's just him
fit him oy they're fair and
boiling i like this fetch
craft them cast
them a broth upon
a cloth and kelped upon him food
food one is
comedy gather it together
gather it together and
left it in die fish
i love lefting my things in die fish
in case that didn't make sense take
almonds that are blanched
grind them i assume with a mortar and
pestle
grinding things by hand is so so
time consuming and i'm not very skilled
at it this is about as fun as i can get
next it says to mix them up thick
but it doesn't say what to mix them with
so i'm guessing we need to add some
water here
because after that it says we need to
set them over the fire and boil them
and we can't boil them unless there's
some sort of liquid
these recipes of course have no pictures
so i'm not 100 sure what we're going for
i don't know how long we're supposed to
heat it for
but next it says set them ado which
i think means set them goodbye or
perhaps we would say take them off the
heat
and sprinkle them with vinegar cast them
abroad upon a cloth
that's fairly straightforward and cast
upon them sugar
i'm not sure how much but i guess
that'll do it
and when it is cold gather it together
look at that this just gathers together
really well actually it clumps when you
press it on itself
who knows if this is what it's supposed
to look like there's a fair bit of
guesswork when you're making a medieval
recipe because they don't have many
details
and then it says left in the dye fish
and if we look at the word die
fish often the f's in this scroll are
actually
s's and the y's are where we would put
an
i so that's likely to be leave it in the
dish
i'm actually going to serve mine in the
cloth so let's see how it tastes
alrighty let's have a look
it looks almost like cheese
i don't know how to describe it it's
like it has like coffee underlying
flavor
but then it's like a crunchy almond as
well
it's pretty good the first impression is
really
sweet like you can tell it's a dessert
but then the aftertaste is very savory
mmm it's not quite a biscuit
not quite cake not a slice
it is almody i wouldn't choose to eat it
today if we had it in the cupboard on to
recipe number two
for to make hooni
galve tac god mike of
armandees and rice
and wash hem well
in fire vessel and in a fair
hoth water hoth water
one for all the star wars fans wait i'm
confused
how can i i can wash that
but how can i wash milk of almond maybe
they don't want milk of almonds maybe
they just want
normal almonds i don't know i'll try
that
i'll wash the rice and almonds in a
vessel with hot water
and then i'll strain the water off
now after washing in hot water the skins
of the almonds come off
really easily and i'm wondering if
washing them was just to remove dirt or
if we're supposed
to peel the almonds too but they don't
mention that
i'm gonna peel them anyway what's next
and after do him in a fair towel
for to dry and once they be
dry bray hem well in a mortar
altiflower oh smash it in a mortar to
flour
so was this almond milk
or were they just crushing the almonds
it was very confusing and afterward
which is actually about the only word
spelt the same afterward let's take two
parties
so i'm assuming you split it and do half
in a pot
and the other half in another pot and
color color color color that
on why wife
the fafron wife the fafron
he was out of the game of thrones wife
the father
and latch that other be what
and lax
what what how are you meant to read this
and let their other be white and let
their
boil till it be thicker and do
there to a god party of fuga
what's a god party
all right i think it's a good part of
sugar a good
part but that's not even like a an
amount
how are you meant to know what a good
part is yeah there's no amounts in the
whole recipe
wow and after
drefel dressled dre for
it
and loki that thou have
armandes boiled in water
and i have no idea what's going on here
this is
this is fun this is like a first copy of
writing my book
and in fafron and in wynn
and i have to fray him hold up
did it just say look that thou have
almonds boiled in water
and in saffron and in wine
because i didn't know i was supposed to
use any wine it didn't mention that
until now
and after that it said to fry them hmm i
guess
i don't know what am i gonna do i don't
want to fry a big lump of stuff
maybe i'll be able to break a bit off
and roll it into balls
and fat him upon the fire
death met and flew
thereon vulgar that
it be well you color
and favorite form nice
now it's time to see what they taste
like look like donut balls
medieval donuts
i think i smelt these cooking before
were these the ones that i said it
smelled really good
okay i'm i'm excited for these ones
it's like a mouthful of almonds not bad
a lot more dense than i was expecting
like i
i thought they were going to be light
and fluffy but they taste good
and that's pretty much exactly what it
is it's a donut bowl covered in sugar
would you eat those yeah they're
delicious i think we have time for one
more quick recipe
paris in a palace
take goad apples and goads
speakers and
figgies figgies
and raisons
and peris and
one they are well
ebrade colored
with saffron well
and do it in a coffin
it's a bit morbid and do
it force to bake well
in the scroll they refer to both coffins
and chastels or
castles and both seem to be some sort of
pastry dough around
a filling i think the shape of the
coffin should probably be long and
rectangular but i'm making mine round
because it's easier
it's very good i think that has fig in
it
and i don't really like fig
and i eat it with my hands yeah maybe
even times
on medieval times of course
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that's good i like it apple pie cinnamon
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raisins i didn't get any fig
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not so much the fig
there are 196 recipes on this scroll and
we've just
done three today but i'm going to give
you a challenge here is another one of
the recipes try and interpret what
you're supposed to do in the comments
below
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