Anglo Saxon Recipes 2015-04-02

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century. They included people from Germanic tribes who migrated to the island from continental Europe, and their descendants; as well as indigenous British groups who adopted some aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and language. The Anglo-Saxon period denotes the period of British history between about 450 and 1066, after their initial settlement, and up until the Norman conquest.

This is a collection of Saxon recipes.

Anglo Saxon food stuffs

• Fruit – figs and grapes, small apples (crab apples) plums, cherries and sloes
• Vegetables - wheat, rye, oats and barley, carrots, 'Welsh carrots'; or parsnips, Cabbages, burdock and rape, Onions and leeks, wild garlic' legumes - peas and beans
• Herbs and spices - ginger, cinnamon, cloves mace and pepper
• Honey
• Wine & Mead, 'apple-wine', probably a form of cider, fruit juices including apple, pear and plum, herbal 'teas' and infusions, beer ale
• Acorns
• Fish - herring, salmon and eel, pike, perch and roach, flounder, whiting, plaice, cod and brown trout, oysters, mussels and cockles
• Meat – pig, chicken, ducks and geese, wild ducks, plover, grouse, herons and geese. Hares, Deer, Wild boar, cow, sheep, goat

Meat
1. Crustade of Chicken and Pigeon
2. Hare, Rabbit, Veal or Chicken Stew with Herbs & Barley
3. Small Bird and Bacon Stew with Walnuts or Hazelnuts
4. Chicken stew with herbs and barley
5. Chicken in Lemon Sauce
6. Pork and Beer Stew 7. Spit Roast
8. Pork Stew with Apricots
9. Bacon Barley
10. Roast Mutton
11. Lamb Stew
12. Peas with Ham and Garlic
13. Kale and Chestnut Soup
14. Spinach, Bacon and Blue Cheese Soup
15. Lamb and Rosemary Stew
16. Veal or Chicken Stew
17. Rump Steak Stilton
18. Lamb and Apricot Stew
19. Pan Roasted Venison with Cherries
20. Venison and Bacon Stew
21. Sausage with Broad Beans
22. Boiled Beef and Leeks
23. Bacon and Mushrooms in Garlic fish
24. A Jellie of Fyshe
25. Griddled Trout With Herbs
26. Fish Baked in Clay
27. Seafarers Stew
28. Mackerel with Onions
29. Cockles and Mussels with Smoked Bacon
30. Scallops with Spiced Sausage Meat
31. Fried Trout, Stuffed with Sliced Ceps, Garlic and Diced Bacon vegetable
32. Nut and Leek Stew
33. 'Fenkel in Soppes' or Braised Fennel with Ginger
34. Prune Sauce
35. Leek and Split Pea Soup
36. Cream of Mushroom Soup
37. Omelette with Home-Made Cheese
38. Quick Ricotta-style Cheese
39. Lettuce with Hard-boiled Eggs and Spring Onions

Deserts
40. Lozenges or Curd Cheese Pastries
41. Summer Fruit, Honey, and Hazelnut Crumble
42. Griddle cakes
43. Gustum De Praecoquis
44. Griddle Cakes / Pancakes
45. Honey Oat Cakes
46. Honey Shortbread
47. Cream Cheese & Honey Slices

Breads
48. Sourdough Rolls
49. Malt Bread, Leavened
porridge
Beverages
1. Beer / Ale