Historical Cooking, Week 5: Soup
This week we have a guest post from Amanda Zoch in the USA who attempts to make a soup from our recipe book – the… Read More »Historical Cooking, Week 5: Soup
Manuscript Collection
Historical Cooking, Week 4: Maiden’s Mystery
This week Miriam Buncombe takes on a mysterious recipe from our historical cookbook – the complete manuscript is available for viewing on our Digital Collections Portal Nestled… Read More »Historical Cooking, Week 4: Maiden’s Mystery
Dish Cake, Blaten Küchlin
This week Fiona Menzies has a go at ‘Dish Cake’. Ein guten theil eyer klopft wol in einer blaten, auch milch darunder, mach mit saltz… Read More »Dish Cake, Blaten Küchlin
Historical Cooking: Week 2 – Milk Soup and Kropffen Cakes
This is the second post in the Special Collections mini-series on our Swiss/German Renaissance cookery book (ms38990), and our first attempt at a recipe. Maia… Read More »Historical Cooking: Week 2 – Milk Soup and Kropffen Cakes
Historical Cooking: Introduction
This is the first post in a new miniseries on historical cooking, in which we will be recreating dishes from a 17th century recipe book.… Read More »Historical Cooking: Introduction
Scotland and the Flemish People
We recently put on a display for the ‘Scotland and the Flemish People’ conference, which focussed on the relationship between Scotland and Flanders, primarily in… Read More »Scotland and the Flemish People
The Regiam Majestatem
Special Collections was recently able to ‘bring home’ an exciting copy of the key Scottish legal text. The manuscript of Regiam Majestatem, written in Lowland Scots,… Read More »The Regiam Majestatem
Cataloguing the papers of David Hay Fleming: St Andrean, local historian and antiquarian
A few weeks ago, Fiona Menzies, our project cataloguer, gave a talk to colleagues, providing an outline of her work on the David Hay Fleming… Read More »Cataloguing the papers of David Hay Fleming: St Andrean, local historian and antiquarian
JD Forbes Book Collecting Prize: 2015 Winner
Dawn Hollis won the inaugural J.D. Forbes Book Collecting Prize in 2015 for her ‘High and Distant Places: A Travel, Mountaineering, and Exploration Collection’. The… Read More »JD Forbes Book Collecting Prize: 2015 Winner
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker …
Well, butcher, baker and blacksmith at least! Three local craftsmen, masters of their trades, will be taking part in a free event on Saturday 7th… Read More »The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker …
Special Collections brings Hay Fleming to StAnza
This year at StAnza, the St Andrews annual Poetry festival, I decided that I would do something a bit different in the name of archival… Read More »Special Collections brings Hay Fleming to StAnza
Reading the Collections, Week 52: Seeing things in a different light.
I wanted to do something a little different for the last of the reading the collections blogs so I decided that it would be intriguing… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 52: Seeing things in a different light.