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Medieval kitchen
Breakfast: Rye bread with cottage cheese, onion, chives, and basil. Sprinkled with freshly ground pepper and sea salt.
Spring onion, young cheese under a glass dome...
Breakfast table richly laid.
Fresh pear, shallot, onion, sourdough bread, rye bread, boiled egg,
cottage cheese, young cheese, red onion, candy sugar, honey, pepper, salt.
Fresh pear, shallot, onion, sourdough bread, rye bread, boiled egg,
cottage cheese, young cheese, red onion, candy sugar, honey, pepper, salt.
Spices, herbs, drinks and dishes, until the end of the 14th century
Delicious lavender hot water with candy sugar.
Small scale for accurately
weighing pepper or other fine spices.
weighing pepper or other fine spices.
Black pepper and mortar
14th century medieval glassware.
Homemade Hydromel
Beehive
Vers jong gistende hydromel / mede,
Medieval kitchen utensils, earthenware, ceramics, jugs, drinking cups, cutlery, pots, chairs, tables, etc.
Whoever claims it...
Mead, or Hydromel, is neither beer nor wine, and this is 100% certain.
It is a honey water mixture with yeast, which ferments, nothing more...
Just to be clear!
Wine is made ONLY from fruit juice and yeast.
After fermentation, it's wine...
Beer is made from malt, water, and yeast.
After fermentation, the beer is...
Hydromel / Mead is a honey water mixture with yeast, which has been fermented, nothing more, and is therefore neither beer nor wine.
The word "hydromel" is a Latin/Greek compound.
"Hydro" comes from the Greek word "Hýdōr," meaning water. "Mel" comes from the Latin word "mel," meaning honey.
This name is more appropriate and makes it clearer what it is compared to the German name "Met" or the English name "Mead"
In short, mead or hydromel is neither beer nor wine...
Mead, or Hydromel, is neither beer nor wine, and this is 100% certain.
It is a honey water mixture with yeast, which ferments, nothing more...
Just to be clear!
Wine is made ONLY from fruit juice and yeast.
After fermentation, it's wine...
Beer is made from malt, water, and yeast.
After fermentation, the beer is...
Hydromel / Mead is a honey water mixture with yeast, which has been fermented, nothing more, and is therefore neither beer nor wine.
The word "hydromel" is a Latin/Greek compound.
"Hydro" comes from the Greek word "Hýdōr," meaning water. "Mel" comes from the Latin word "mel," meaning honey.
This name is more appropriate and makes it clearer what it is compared to the German name "Met" or the English name "Mead"
In short, mead or hydromel is neither beer nor wine...
14th century teapot and cups.
Medieval hand hygiene, this is how hands were washed...
Medieval cast iron cutlery
Medieval wooden cutlery
Earthenware drinking cups
Medieval tripod pot, could be placed in the glow of the fire...
10th century jug
14th century jug
Large copper kettles, used around the 12th to 14th century
Plates, ceramic pottery with decorations.
Fire bowl with wrought iron stove.
Hinge chairs,
Dismountable table with medieval mortise and tenon joint.
Conical drinking cup with a lid.
A common shape throughout the Middle Ages.
A common shape throughout the Middle Ages.
Have you heard of Hydromel?
No?
Then it's time for a medieval tasting...
No?
Then it's time for a medieval tasting...
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Not everyone could afford such spices or food...
It was also quite a hassle and undertaking to get certain things to their destination. The safer trade routes were always dangerous and expensive.
Certainly not imagining that a one-man trader could single-handedly drag a large bag of pepper from one place to another to distribute.
He wouldn't get very far with that.
Back then, this could only be achieved here with an entire caravan and armed mercenaries, knights, soldiers, etc.
It was a whole organization involving merchants and guilds.
A very expensive affair, too. A steak with pepper sauce was already possible.
Tasty fries would have to wait a few hundred years.
There weren't potatoes here yet, and certainly no fries either...
A steak was already possible back then, but not for everyone.
You couldn't find tomatoes, corn, green beans, white and brown beans, cocoa, paprika, or chili here either. Coffee and tea weren't available yet either. No pineapples, strawberries, bananas, blueberries, etc. Note that blueberries aren't actually bilberries, which already existed here.
Just like strawberries, which didn't appear here until the 18th century. Wild strawberries, however, were available here.
It was also quite a hassle and undertaking to get certain things to their destination. The safer trade routes were always dangerous and expensive.
Certainly not imagining that a one-man trader could single-handedly drag a large bag of pepper from one place to another to distribute.
He wouldn't get very far with that.
Back then, this could only be achieved here with an entire caravan and armed mercenaries, knights, soldiers, etc.
It was a whole organization involving merchants and guilds.
A very expensive affair, too. A steak with pepper sauce was already possible.
Tasty fries would have to wait a few hundred years.
There weren't potatoes here yet, and certainly no fries either...
A steak was already possible back then, but not for everyone.
You couldn't find tomatoes, corn, green beans, white and brown beans, cocoa, paprika, or chili here either. Coffee and tea weren't available yet either. No pineapples, strawberries, bananas, blueberries, etc. Note that blueberries aren't actually bilberries, which already existed here.
Just like strawberries, which didn't appear here until the 18th century. Wild strawberries, however, were available here.
Back in the Middle Ages, people here didn't say, "Oh, let's have a cup of tea."
The tea herb that comes from the Middle East wasn't yet common here in the Middle Ages.
So, the word "tea" wasn't used here either.
Back then, it was infusions with herbs, or the herbs were boiled and strained. In that case, the word "hot (herb name) water" was used.
For example: Hot Lavender water.
In Dutch:
-Trecken, of Sieden...
-Trecken vanden cruyden
-Waetermet dat cruyt
In German:
-Kräuter-aufguss
-Wurzwasser
The tea herb that comes from the Middle East wasn't yet common here in the Middle Ages.
So, the word "tea" wasn't used here either.
Back then, it was infusions with herbs, or the herbs were boiled and strained. In that case, the word "hot (herb name) water" was used.
For example: Hot Lavender water.
In Dutch:
-Trecken, of Sieden...
-Trecken vanden cruyden
-Waetermet dat cruyt
In German:
-Kräuter-aufguss
-Wurzwasser