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Classic scones
Type: Bread, scones Prep time: 10 min Cooking time: 10 min Quick and easy to make scones that tend to work out wonderfully every time. They take about 15-20 minutes to make including everything, so...
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Spider muffins
Type: Muffins Prep time: 10 min Cooking time: 20 min These are based on a Swedish recipe called “St Lucia Muffins” from the page dagensmuffin.se. I can no longer find the recipe online so I decided to...
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Scary cookies
Type: Cookies These cookies are from a children’s book about being a witch but we added our own touches and I can’t remember the name of the book. This is how the cookies looked last halloween. In the...
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Bone snack bread sticks
Type: Bread, side dish We made these for halloween last year, but we have also made them as bread sticks since and they are yummy! It is my experience that the breadsticks are more bread-ish than crisp...
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Mit vilde vikingekøkken
Title: Mit vilde vikingekøkken Author: Jim Lyngvild Genre: Historical cookbook, campfire I visited my sister in Copenhagen this past weekend and among other things we went to Nationalmuseet (free...
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The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook
Title: The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook Author: Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, Sariann Lehrer Genre: Cookbook, fantasy If you are a fan of fantasy or historical cooking, then I think you will enjoy this...
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Leve
Leve (flatbread), a peach, Prima Donna (hard cheese), sausage and some lingonberry jam (from IKEA) Type: Flatbread From historical sources we know that these viking flatbread were called “leve” which...
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Barley crackers
Barley crackers with a peach and a chunk of Prima Donna hard cheese Type: Crackers Bayley was the most common grain in the viking age (in Scandinavia). The Danish word for barley; “byg”- means grown...
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Damper
Type: Soda Bread A damper is an Austrian bread type that as far as I know has its origin in the colony area. It is a very quick bread. You just throw the ingredients together and then bake it right...
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Pizza Dough
After trying a stack of different doughs for pizza I have settled on using one that I got from one of my friend. The edges crisp up, the bottom of the pizza is crispy rather than doughy and it taste...
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What the vikings definitely didn’t eat
Browsing the web, especially on pinterest I sometimes come across some medieval and viking recipes, for markets no less, that makes me groan. This isn’t about perfect authenticity but it is about...
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What the vikings ate
These were some the viking foods I had sitting in my kitchen today. Spring onion, pearl barley, garlic, salt, coarse flour, apples and some hard cheese. Saturday I visited MoMu (Moesgaard Museum) with...
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The Medieval Cookbook
Title: The Medieval Cookbook Author: Maggie Black Genre: Historical cookbook, medieval I am in the process of aranging a medieval feast as a larp event, so I am reading cookbooks. I have not yet tried...
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Renæssancemad
Title: Renæssancemad – opskrifter og køkkenhistorie fra Christian 4.’s tid Author: Bi Skaarup Genre: Historical cookbook, renaissance This is the latest book in my reading on pre-industrial food...
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Game Postej & Pumpkin Puré
Game pie or “vildt postej” As I have talked about before I am planing a medieval & renaissance inspired larp dinner. I just started testing out recipes. Thursday night I had a friend over who will...
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Cock-a-leek
Me cooking cock-a-leek for a larp event I have made cock-a-leek twice for events over a campfire. Once it was fantastic and once it turned out watery and really borring. But I think I have figured out...
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Fresh cheese
A few years back I learned how to make fresh cheese from buttermilk. It is really quick and easy to make and don’t really require any weird equipment. And it is perfect for larping events. It also has...
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Oatmeal “klatkager”
Cooking klatkager and heating water for coffee and tea in my little trusted pot. This year at Drachenfest we had barley porridge for breakfast most days. However one day the men-folk were called to a...
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Pebernødder (peppernuts)
Pebernødder is the perfect Christmas cookie to make with children as they are very easy and the shaping works very well with small grabby hands. I know one of my friends had her two year old “help”...
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Pork and chicken postej (meat pie)
My sister visited my parents’ summer house this week with her new baby and I of course had to come as well. On Tuesday a lot of the family came to visit so we were eight grownups for dinner and a three...
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