Still thinking about something a little different for Christmas? These fig tartlets, based on a 15th-century recipe, are so scrumptious, and my recipe for them is FREE to download during December. Would go so well with a sherry. buymeacoffee.com/monksmmc/e/49366

It's delicious! It takes like liquid zabaglione with a hit of warm spice. It does not taste like Advocaat! 🤣

Good morning from Cheshire.

More light in the darkess: "Mariana and the Black Whippets" by our former Dartmoor neighbour David Wyatt.

The totally stunning 17th century Riding House at Bolsover Castle, where William Cavendish practised and mastered the art of manège - a subject he also wrote extensively about.

It's delicious! It takes like liquid zabaglione with a hit of warm spice. It does not taste like Advocaat! 🤣

It's time for my new Christmas Caudle, based on a recipe from about 600 years ago! I do hope you'll try making this delicious Christmas tipple. modernmedievalcuisine.com/2025/12/14/c...

It's time for my new Christmas Caudle, based on a recipe from about 600 years ago! I do hope you'll try making this delicious Christmas tipple. modernmedievalcuisine.com/2025/12/14/c...

Boozy fig tartlets. My adaptation of a 15th-century recipe is FREE to download during December. buymeacoffee.com/monksmmc/e/49366

In the run up to Christmas you can get my fig tartlets recipe for FREE. Based on a 15th-cent bake metes recipe. Perfectly spiced and a little boozy. Check out my shop for other ideas for medieval Christmas pastries. buymeacoffee.com/monksmmc/e/49366

In the run up to Christmas you can get my fig tartlets recipe for FREE. Based on a 15th-cent bake metes recipe. Perfectly spiced and a little boozy. Check out my shop for other ideas for medieval Christmas pastries. buymeacoffee.com/monksmmc/e/49366

My area has a few nesting bald eagles, but we tend to have more eagles during the winter. Here's one of my favorite eagle in flight photographs. Full-res preview and prints here: laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/bal... 📷 #birds #wildlife #nature

Apple Cinnamon Tear & Share. Maybe make one to share over a chat with a neighbour or friend. Find the recipe and a bite-sized history now at my website www.myhistoricaltable.com By @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social

This dragonfly is a Wandering Glider (Pantala flavescens). It was preening its tarsus as it rested on a branch. My Portfolio: portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #photography #dragonflies #insects

My Baked Blueberry Basque Cheesecake. Over on my website www.myhistoricaltable.com I have a bite-size history of this wonderful cake. Have a little look-see if you like food history. Run by me @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social Join me at my table ✌️🫶 #foodsky #skystorian

Thessaloniki: A Food Lovers Paradise Bougatsa, bouyourdi, roast red peppers, fried cheese, patsas, soutzoukakia, leek keftedes...So many delicious dishes...check this lovely interview with Meni: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #food #podcast #thessaloniki #greekfood #traditionalfood

A mini-🧵 & episode: (1/2) Lynceus of Samos, a Greek gastronomic author of circa 300 BCE, and pupil of Theophrastus in his letter to Diagoras included an extended comparison of Rhodian with Athenian culinary delicacies. [...] podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Spotted Richard III Society repeating the myth that rude carvings in churches were put there by unpaid masons. Instead they relate to a form of spirituality called negative mysticism: achieving salvation by resistance to temptation. More here: triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...

I'm back with a winter season of online talks, starting with Dating Ancient Buildings. Join us on Tue 25 Nov to learn how to use archives, archaeology & dendrochronology to understand the age of historic buildings. Booking is now open, here... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dating-anc...

OK. 6/10. 😄 But was my first experiment w/ England's earliest recipe for crêpes, late 1200s, written in Anglo-Norman (French). No milk, no egg yolk in the batter. I must make the batter thinner. Difficult to manoeuvre in the pan, which btw was probably deeper than a frying pan.

This is well worth reading. Thoughtful, and offers good evidence. Funny, too. 🤣 I must be one of the naughty ones alluded to in the article. triskeleheritage.triskelepublishing.com/2022/09/26/m...

Well, what a strange and wonderful survival this is…a turf maze dating from 1660! 🤩 It sits in the middle of the very lovely village of Hilton, Cambridgeshire, and was made by William Sparrow, a royalist, to commemorate the restoration of Charles II.

I don't usually make champagne cocktails -- just drink the champagne! -- but we had a chilled, gifted bottle of Californian sparkling brut (good substitute), and sugar cubes, Angostura bitters, and cheapo brandy, so made a couple to celebrate exchange of contracts on our new home. Not half bad! 😆

Tea cups. One for smelling one for drinking the tea.

Whisky sour. I like to make a few cocktails on holiday.

FREE recipes during November: Chykens in Hocche (chicken, stuffed w/ garlic, grapes, herbs, poached in spiced broth); Ryse of Fleysche (saffron rice). From Richard II's cookery book. Great food for autumn (or indeed spring, if you're in the Southern hemisphere) buymeacoffee.com/MonksMMC/e/4...

FREE recipes during November: Chykens in Hocche (chicken, stuffed w/ garlic, grapes, herbs, poached in spiced broth); Ryse of Fleysche (saffron rice). From Richard II's cookery book. Great food for autumn (or indeed spring, if you're in the Southern hemisphere) buymeacoffee.com/MonksMMC/e/4...

The usurpation of Richard II paves the way for the terrible conflict of the Wars of the Roses and dynastic struggles that shatter the fifteenth century. buff.ly/2xMXJTW? / #Free on #KindleUnlimited

Life in Eleventh Century Britain: The Fyrd and the Housecarls: Before the Normans brought over their own version of feudalism, the Anglo-Saxons had a different way of calling up an army in need of defense. buff.ly/444Sfxy

The paywall vanishes with this "gift" link to my story, published last week in the @nytimes.com, about a place prized for its biodiversity where an international airport is under illegal construction and Donald Trump's son-in-law plans to build a luxury resort. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...

Good evening! Perfect episode to listen on your commute home! The foods and dishes of Thessaloniki, and the rich tapestry of ingredients of North Greece in general too is what we discuss with the author Meni Valle here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... #thessaloniki #podcast #greekcuisine

Last week to get your FREE download of my #gluten-free Tart of Applis, based on a 14th-century English recipe: buymeacoffee.com/monksmmc/e/2...

Wow!

The awe inspiring ceiling of the 13th century, octagonal, Chapter House at Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire 🤩

One of my all time favourite church doorways! 😍 The broken pediment with elliptical window is so unusual 🤩 St. Mary’s Church, Conington, Cambridgeshire.

Beautiful 😍

So cool, isn't it? It's on the southern Peloponnesus in a shepherds' settlement in the mountains above the village where I live part of each year. Here's an essay I wrote about touloumotiri. So great to meet another touloumotiri enthusiast! orionmagazine.org/article/gree...

🧵 ALERT! 1/? Greek cheese of the day! woohoo! Have you been waiting patiently? Oh well wait no more, here it is! Today we're going to the North-East Aegean were we find Touloumotyri: Soft, grainy, pungent touloumotyri is named for the goat skin (touloumi) in which it is stored.

And that's a wrap for the inaugural Serve It Forth Food History Festival! A day of food history talks, video recipes and cocktails with some amazing guests and my lovely co-hosts @neilbuttery.bsky.social @mrssbilton.bsky.social & @mrssbilton.bsky.social

This looks fantastic! Congratulations @mrssbilton.bsky.social 👏

A reminder that my latest release is now in stock on Amazon, too! www.amazon.co.uk/Young-Worker... #childlabour

Free recipe during October: buymeacoffee.com/MonksMMC/e/2... Based upon a 14th-century recipe for apple, pear, fig and raisin tart. 😋

Hello Bluesky 😀 We're the record office for Derbyshire, meaning we hold all the historic archives for the county of #Derbyshire and the city of #Derby. We're delighted to join everyone here! Follow us if you're interested in #history, #archives, old #recipes, historic #fashion and lots more...

Free recipe during October: buymeacoffee.com/MonksMMC/e/2... Based upon a 14th-century recipe for apple, pear, fig and raisin tart. 😋

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Come work with us!🏺 Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇 bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...