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Today from Solothurn S 392: How to fill a capon with its own innards (and plenty of spices). Because sometimes medieval cooking is that cliché.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/12/roast-capon-the-complicated-way/
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Today, a recipe for fig-nut fritters with parallels in several otherwise not strongly related sources. It was clearly transmitted as text, not just as content, and geography mattered, maybe more than class.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/08/fritters-with-parallels/
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I tried the spinach pancake casserole recipe from Das elektrische Kochen today, and it was pretty good. More redactions to come for my revolutionary recipes.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/06/trying-the-spinach-pancake-casserole/
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Two Lenten recipes, one for a fish roe cake and one for a kind of Studentenfutter, with parallels in different recipe collections that suggest a kind of synoptic South German cookbook tradition with a lost Q.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/04/some-lenten-recipes-and-their-transmission/
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A crustless cheesecake from c. 1500 which the recipe claims to be Venetian. It sounds worth trying out actually.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/09/03/a-venetian-cheesecake/
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How some organised Berlin tenants got an actual Nazi's real estate investment confiscated in 1979. Also, summer fruit pudding and neotraditional cuisine.
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/08/29/my-landlord-did-what-feeding-the-revolution-xxxvii/
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oday: Making raisins when the weather is not cooperative. Also, medieval German cooking sources have the weirdest names bar none. "ugesicke"
https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/08/27/raisins-in-a-cold-climate/
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