Weekend Cooking: Recipes from the Middle Ages

Cherry pottage (vegetarian)

'Tak cheryes & do out the stones & grynde hem wel & draw hem thorw a streynour & do it in a pot. & do therto whit gres or swete botere & myed wastel bred, & cast therto good wyn & sugre, & salte it & stere it wel togedere, & dresse it in disches; and set theryn clowe gilofre, & strewe sugre aboue.'

– Mnesitheus, quoted in Oribasius, Medical Collections 4, 4, 1.


Modern English version of the recipe:

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Source: How to cook a medieval feast: 11 recipes from the Middle Ages\

Edit: Link with photos of the process and the dish: Medieval Cherry Pottage

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