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A tagliatelle made from gold that defines the official size of a tagliatelle, at the Palazzo della Mercanzia in Bologna (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What are some actual European foods that people ate hundreds of years before that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

From what I can find, there was a lot of barley, wheat, rye. Meat and fish. Peas, cabbage, apples, pears, grapes, honey, legumes, herbs, cheese.

Recipes turn out to be a lot of bread with cheese, meat or stews, with wine or beer. And also things like pancakes and other baked goods.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Take veel other motoun and smyte it to gobettes. Seeth it in gode broth; cast therto erbes yhewe gode won, and a quantite of oynouns mynced, powdour fort and safroun, and alye it with ayren and verious: but let it not seeth after.

—Curye on Inglysch, IV.18.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Meat, grains, fruit, and veg. Just different ones and less variety.