History Needs You
  • Home
  • Services
    • Broadcasting >
      • Consultancy for film and tv
      • On Air
      • On Screen
      • Voice Overs and Audio
    • Funded History Projects
    • Events and Live Performance
    • Victorian Photo Studio >
      • Toynbee Hall
    • Education >
      • World War 1 >
        • WW1 at Home
        • The World at War
      • Education resources
    • Training
  • Contact

Recipe for Galantine - a spicy sauce for meat c1390

9/12/2012

0 Comments

 
The original recipe in Middle English from 1390 is as follows:
Take crustes of brede and grynde hem smale. Do þerto powdour of galyngale, of canel, of gyngyuer, and salt it; tempre it vp with vyneger, and drawe it vp þurgh a straynour, & messe it forth.
(N.B. þ is equivalent to th)

Translated into modern English:
Take crusts of bread and grind them small. Add powder of galingale, of cinnamon, of ginger, and salt it; mix it with vinegar, and pass it through a strainer, & serve it.

Pour this onto roasted meats, especially game, beef or mutton. I prefer to make it with claret and red wine vinegar as was more usual in Tudor times. I do like this delicious sauce and may well be cooking it for Christ-tide.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    January 2017
    September 2016
    April 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    May 2015
    January 2015
    June 2014
    May 2014
    March 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012

    Categories

    All
    All Saints Church
    Architecture
    Cambridge
    CCT
    Christmas
    Eghmedia
    Film
    G F Bodley
    Halloween
    Historical Recipes
    History
    Historyneedsyou
    Literacy
    Pinterest
    Richard Iii
    Twitter
    William Morris

    RSS Feed

Copyright for all images and text on this website is owned by Matthew Ward and Gill Fraser Lee, @HistoryNeedsYou unless stated otherwise.  Images and content may not be used elsewhere without permission.
  • Home
  • Services
    • Broadcasting >
      • Consultancy for film and tv
      • On Air
      • On Screen
      • Voice Overs and Audio
    • Funded History Projects
    • Events and Live Performance
    • Victorian Photo Studio >
      • Toynbee Hall
    • Education >
      • World War 1 >
        • WW1 at Home
        • The World at War
      • Education resources
    • Training
  • Contact