History Visits
Tasting (with the Time Travelling Cook)
When you choose a tasting session, you get to try a selection of key foods and drinks from a historic period (usually around 5 foods and 2 drinks). These sessions will take at least an hour, while everyone tastes everything!
I bring the consumables, disposable cutlery, and hygiene equipment, and all I need is a table to put things on. (In my day job I do kitchen work for a large supplier of school and care home meals, so I am safe and certificated to prepare, cook, and serve food to the public.) Currently I'm choosing to only offer foods that can be eaten cold.
Tourtes Parmerienes - Parma Tart. One of my dishes you may be able to taste.
These are just some of the food and drink you may experience:
A tasting session will cost £60, plus 45 pence per mile travel allowance. Contact me here to book.
Choose from the following:
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History Picnic - cold foods and drinks from six different eras of history - I choose anything from Roman times to the Tudors. *not all periods are covered
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Viking Picnic - a selection of Viking food and drink put together from the Saga's and archaeology, served in a Viking way.
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Anglo-Saxon Picnic - a selection of Anglo-Saxon food and drink put together from Leechbooks and archaeology.
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bærlic hláf
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potage
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rysschews
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claree
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gerenodne senep
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venesoun saussiche
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fesaunt
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gebrædde ægru
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dyvers potage of apel and roison
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fáinn fleski ok fugla steikða
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compost
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sáðum hleif.
History Picnic
Cooking in the Bayeaux Tapestry produced in the 1070's; and my attempt to replicate one of those techniques. Bird on a stick!
sele him etan gewyrtodne henfugel
give him to eat a henfowl dressed with herbs
Bald's Leechbook III
986 CE
One of the oldest surviving English recipes for making mead is contained within the 13th century Tractatus de Magnetate et Operationibus eius. The first line reads: "For to make mede: Tak 1 galon of fyn hony"
The Tudor sweet treat you can buy from Amazon! Whole candied peel.