4 15th century recipes

From a manuscript in the British Library known as Harleian 479, dating from around 1420; recipe adapted.

A soup which is a combination of Mediterranean garlic soups with a 17th century East European fava beans soup. Quite good.

Literally means "white food". Blancmange is a delicate, quivering snow-white pudding that goes back to the 16th century that was extremely popular in the Victorian age.

Here I adapted an 18th century English spice cake recipe which also makes nice cupcakes.