Season 2020 Episodes
1. How to Make Medieval Cheese
February 25th, 20207 min
I'll show you step by step and give a bit of the history of cheese, from Egypt, to Greece, to WWII and Nixon. Learn how we went from curdled milk in a sheep stomach to the wide world of cheese we know today.
2. Baking A Medieval Cheesecake - The History of the Sambocade
March 3rd, 202012 min
In this episode, I make a medieval elderflower cheesecake - a Sambocade. I explore how this dessert is the link between the ancient cheesecake given to Greek Olympians and the modern NY style cheesecake we love today.
3. Making 400 Year Old Buttered Beere
March 10th, 20209 min
In this episode, I show you how to make your own alcoholic (and non-alcoholic) Buttered Beere and we explore the importance of beer and ale in Medieval and Renaissance England.
4. Cooking Medieval Dessert for Lent: Bruet of Almaynne in lente
March 17th, 202010 min
I show you how to make your own almond milk and look at the medieval diet during Lent and other fasting. I also explore some of the ways people made sure they could still eat well while observing their fast, even if that mean considering a beaver a fish.
5. Apple Muse for the Plague - The Four Humors
March 24th, 20208 min
6. Weird Cures for the Black Plague - Candied Horseradish
March 24th, 20209 min
7. What does a 1920s BIRTHDAY CAKE taste like?
March 30th, 202011 min
8. How to Make a MEDIEVAL TRENCHER - Torte Bread
April 7th, 20208 min
9. Cooking A CAPON Dish For A Medieval King - Sweet Measure
April 12th, 20206 min
10. Making Medieval Fig Spread - Rapé - History of the Fig
April 17th, 20209 min
11. Making a Medieval TART DE BRY (Brie Tart) - Brie: The King of Cheese
April 28th, 202013 min
12. Anglo-Saxon Oatcakes - How Not To Burn King Alfred's Cakes
May 5th, 202013 min
13. The Softest Bread In England - How To Make 18th Century Sally Lunn Buns
May 12th, 202015 min
14. How to Bake Medieval Rastons - The Life of a Miller
May 19th, 202017 min
15. History's Fluffiest Dessert! - Everlasting Syllabub
May 26th, 202014 min
16. Cooking from THE FORME OF CURY: England's First Cookbook - Galyntyne Sauce
June 3rd, 202014 min
17. I finally made GARUM - Ancient Rome's favorite condiment
June 9th, 202016 min
18. Oldest Cookbook in the West - APICIUS - Ancient Roman Mussels
June 16th, 202014 min
19. A Tart to Topple a King - Lombardy Custard
June 23rd, 202016 min
20. A Dish for the First 4th of July... and why it should be on the 2nd.
June 30th, 202014 min
21. The Poisonous History of Tomatoes - Pomodori Farciti all’Erbette (1773)
July 7th, 202011 min
22. The Bread of ANCIENT ROME - Pompeii's Panis Quadratus
July 14th, 202013 min
23. Making Hippocras at Home - Medieval Spiced Wine
July 21st, 202018 min
24. Civil War Bread Pudding
July 28th, 202014 min
25. KYKEON - The Drink of Greek Heroes
August 4th, 202014 min
26. Payasam - Medieval India & Dessert for the King
August 11th, 202014 min
27. The Wonderful History of Pancakes
August 18th, 202016 min
28. Loseyns - Medieval English Lasagna!
August 25th, 202017 min
29. The Strange Flavor of Parthian Chicken from Ancient Rome
September 1st, 202017 min
30. FARTS OF PORTINGALE - A Shakespearean Treat
September 8th, 202012 min
31. Quesadillas Cernidas & Aztec Maize
September 15th, 202016 min
32. Yuanxiao from the Ming Dynasty
September 22nd, 202017 min
33. Precedella - 1500's Pretzels made with Wine
September 29th, 202016 min
34. Spartan BLACK BROTH - Melas Zomos
October 6th, 202016 min
35. Scappi's Renaissance Herb Torte
October 13th, 202018 min
36. The History of Sugar Part 1 - Medieval Arabian Pistachio and Rose Candy
October 20th, 202018 min
37. The History of Sugar Part 2 - Victoria Punch
October 27th, 202019 min
38. Soul Cakes & Trick-or-Treating
October 30th, 202013 min
39. Silphium: The Lost Aphrodisiac of Ancient Rome
November 3rd, 202019 min
40. Making Medieval Mead like a Viking
November 10th, 202019 min
41. Pumpion Pie from 1670
November 17th, 202017 min
42. What Did Medieval Peasants Eat?
November 24th, 202017 min
43. Figgy Pudding - A Victorian Christmas Tradition
December 1st, 202019 min
44. Unwrapping Aztec Tamales - The Tamale Wars
December 8th, 202020 min
45. Celebrating Saturnalia with Cato's Globi
December 15th, 202017 min
46. Making Medieval Gingerbread
December 20th, 202015 min
47. Eggnog: A Christmas History
December 22nd, 202016 min
48. A 4000 Year Old Recipe for the Babylonian New Year
December 29th, 202018 min
