Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

All fish and seafood6Smoked salted and dried foods3Adjacent and excluded2Acid and oil pickles1
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Creamy fish and onion soup with trout, carrots, chervil and cress.

Fish and onion soup (modern reconstruction)

Trout or salmon poached at the end of a simmered broth of onion and root vegetables, a present-day reconstruction of coastal cooking built on excavated fish bones and a boiling pot.

Ribe · Modern adaptation
· Fish and seafood
Illustrative modern reconstruction of poached stockfish with a coarse walnut, garlic and bread sauce, based on the ingredients and mortar method in Ashmole MS 1439. The source records no historical serving appearance.
Elevated risk

Stockfish in walnut sauce (medieval)

The second stockfish sauce from a fifteenth-century English manuscript: walnuts, garlic, bread, pepper and salt ground in a mortar and loosened with the fish's own broth.

England · Modern adaptation
· Fish and seafood
An interpretive gouache illustration of cooked stockfish under a hot, light verjuice and fish-broth sauce with chopped parsley; the fifteenth-century manuscript supports these ingredients and serving form, not this exact plate.
Elevated risk

Stockfish in verjuice sauce (medieval)

A fifteenth-century English way to serve cooked stockfish: strained fish broth boiled with chopped parsley, powdered ginger and a little verjuice, then poured hot over the fish.

England · Modern adaptation
· Fish and seafood
Warm white beans with flaked bokkom flesh, lemon and parsley

White beans with bokkoms

Cooked white beans warm gently with a little deboned, ready-to-eat commercial bokkom flesh, garlic, lemon and parsley. This is a contemporary serving adaptation, not a documented inherited Cape dish.

Modern adaptation
Fish and seafood
Prepared Swedish pickled herring pieces with red onion in a glass jar, with leek, carrot, allspice, bay leaf and cloves nearby.

5-minuterssill

A Swedish ready-to-dress herring preparation: add the classic sliced aromatics and spices to already prepared herring, then serve or chill for fuller flavour.

Sweden · Modern adaptation
· Fish and seafood
Chunky Czech smoked mackerel spread with pickle and onion, served with dark rye bread.
High risk

Smoked mackerel spread

A quick Czech spread folds ready-smoked mackerel into quark, pickles, onion, mustard and lemon for serving with bread.

Czechia · Modern adaptation
Fish and seafood