Thinly slice the oranges, sprinkle with rosewater (more or less, depending on how well people in your audience will like it), and then lightly with cinnamon.

Original Recipe Laganon Hesychius Dictionary[1] “Laganon: a type of small cake, dry, made from the finest wheat flour and fried in a frying pan in olive oil.” Ingredients: 1/2 cup unbleached flour 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup water (scant) 1/4 teaspoon salt Preparation Steps: Combine flours and salt in a mixing bowl. Gradually add […]

Ingredients: dates shelled almonds, hazelnuts or pine kernals (one per date) pepper salt 2 tbls honey Method: Stone the dates and stuff with the nuts and a little pepper. Roll the dates in salt and heat the honey in a frying pan. Fry the dates briskly and then serve.

Ingredients: 450g self-raising flour 1 tbls sweet white wine pinch aniseed pinch cumin 50g lard 25g grated cheese 1 beaten egg 12 bay leaves Method: Moisten the flour with the wine and add the aniseed and cumin. Rub in the lard and grated cheese and bind the mixture with egg. Shape into 12 small cakes and […]

Here is something sweet to round out the meal. Ingredients: honey sesame seeds orange flower water Method: Use equal weights of honey and sesame seeds. In a heavy skillet bring the honey to a very firm ball stage (250° to 256° F). Stir in the sesame seeds and continue cooking until the mixture comes to a bubbling […]

Pastfeli Sweet Wine Cakes Stuffed Dates Moretum (Cheese with Herbs) Melca (Fresh Cheese Curds) Lagana ( cake) Caeseus cum Recenti Fico (Cheese with Figs) Dulcia Domestica (Honeyed Dates) Oranges dressed in cinnamon and rosewater Fruited Rice Hais (Date Kabobs) Khushkananaj (Almond Cake) Cheese and flour cake Flower water wine with honey (Anthokrasso me meli) Fig sweets (Sikomagides) […]

(An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the 13th Century) Take a ratl of carrots, of which you have cleaned the interior. Cook it in a ratl of water, some two boilings, then take it off the fire and let it dry a little, over a sieve. Add it to three ratls of honey, cleaned of its foam, and […]

Original Recipe: Mystron: Athenaeus, The Partying Professors ‘Nicander of Colophon is the author who employs the word mystron when describing the use of the word barley groats in the first of his two books On Farming. He writes: “But when you are making a dish of fresh kid or lamb or capon, put some barley groats in […]

Original Recipe Assaturas: Apicius, #220 Assaturas: Mirtae siccae bacam extenteratam cum cumino, pipere, melle, liquamine, defrito et oleo teres et fervefactum amulas. Carnem elixam sale subassatam perfundis, piper aspargis et inferes. For Roasted Meat: Crush dried, pitted myrtle berries with cumin, pepper, honey, garum, defrutum, and oil; heat and thicken with starch. Boil the meat and then roast […]

Original Recipe [Parsnips] Another way: [Apicius 119] Boil the parsnips hard, put them in a sauce pan and stew with oil, stock, pepper, raisin wine,strain, and bind with roux. Carotæ and Pastinacæ: [Apicius 122] Carrots and parsnips are fried with a wine sauce. Ingredients: 6 carrots 2 parsnips 1/4 cup olive oil 1/2 cup chicken […]