In our final post in this Historical Cooking series, Ines tries Almond Porridge. After being lured by my colleagues and my curiosity into the Renaissance… Read More »Historical Cooking, Week 9: Almond Porridge
This week Sean attempts to make an apple-based dish from our recipe book – the complete manuscript is available for viewing on our Digital Collections… Read More »Historical Cooking, Week 8
This week Catherine attempts to make Filled Pears using a recipe from book – the complete manuscript is available for viewing on our Digital Collections Portal… Read More »Historical Cooking, Week 7: Filled Pears
This week Sean is brave enough to attempt a fried snail dish from our recipe book – the complete manuscript is available for viewing on… Read More »Historical Cooking, Week 6: Fried Snails
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
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
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
I wonder yow writ not to mee. Like so many parents or guardians of young people at university, Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh was not… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 44: The Mackenzie Correspondence, 1685-1691
Although I thought that the work of George Herbert was all new to me, I found that I already knew some of his poems almost… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 14: George Herbert, The Temple (Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1633)
A few months ago, while walking the stacks of our 17th century collections, a copy of Andrea Morosini’s folio Historia Veneta (1623) caught my eye.… Read More »A Tale of Two Cities: fragment of extremely rare 17th century Glasgow Catechism uncovered
On the 15th of May, Hermine Lefebvre, USTC/ENSSIB intern for 2014, completed a wonderful cataloguing project which has seen all of St Andrews’ 17th century… Read More »Cataloguing of all 17th Century Books by Athanasius Kircher Complete!
For this week’s how-to post, I’ve taken some inspiration from one of our quirkiest collections, that of the Reverend John Beveridge (1857-1943). Beveridge gifted his… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 28: translating 17th century verse into Esperanto
