Isabella's Project Diary

  I decided to try and work with the rye dough and, sadly, only the rye dough.  I should have [mixed it with other flours](https://historica...

  Within itself, bread is not a meal but it was a vital part of the Medieval and Renaissance diet .  The Medievalists already did an excell...

  Rice with Raisins This is one of those meals that we'd probably be more likely to eat for breakfast today than just anytime of day dur...

  Taken from Medieval Cookery This one was a successful failure.  What I mean by that is that the mixture failed to retain ball shape when I...

  Taken from Medieval Cookery This is honestly one of my comfort foods when I've done medieval Lent in the past.  It's a good, hardy...

  Taken from Medieval Cookery This morning, I tried to make almond milk with my new fangled Christmas gift of a soy milk machine.  It worked...

  For Lent this year, I will only be doing the medieval meals on Wednesdays and Fridays.  I found out, the hard way, that too much almond mi...

Since I have time again to cook at home, and I really wanted soup, I made Potato Leek soup today!  I bought ingredients a couple of days ago...

Sorry for the sideway photo!  I took it with my phone.  Anyway, I baked a ham on Saturday.  Ham is ridiculously cheap at the Commissary ...

I had a lot of leftovers because I cooked like I was back home and not just for me an a couple of co-workers.  :-)  So, I made Turkey casser...

A few of my co-workers will be leaving our project tomorrow so we are having a mini going away party.  For that, I'm making my Vegan A...

Long time readers will know that for years, I've tried to work on making a good, yummy, apple pie that was also period correct for the...

I'm a day late, again, and I missed last fortnight because of Easter. Whoops! This time, I decided to do something I've been crav...

Ingredients: 2 lbs redskin potatoes 1 cup of whole milk 1/4 cup of butter - melted Salt to taste 1 lb ground beef  1 package...

A day late but it's done! Since it's Lent, I did a Salmon Roast based on several 15th Century English recipes. samon Rostyd In Sa...

The Challenge: 4. Sweets for the Sweet (February 12 - February 25) It’s sugar, and maybe spice, and definitely everything nice. Test out ...

Although I spoke about  doing the medieval Lent thing  again this year, I finally gave up today.  The biggest reason was very simple - I cou...

3. History Detective (January 29 - February 11)  For this challenge, you get to be the detective! Either use clues from multiple recipes to ...

It's that time of year again! This year will be slightly different than previous Lents for a couple of reasons: a) I am no longer aller...

The Challenge:   2. Culinary Vices (January 15 - January 28) Some foods are really, really naughty. Globs of butter, lashings of sugar a...