Medieval Mustards – CLA3A03

(Created by Eithne Ruad based on the class developed by HL Gwen A’Brooke of Calontir)

Level: Novice

Length of Class: 1 hour

Description: This class will familiarize the student with the making and use of mustards in period.

Objectives: By the end of this class the student should:

v Be familiar with the use of mustards in period mustards

v Be familiar with the ingredients used in period

v Be able to make a mustard that would have been consumed in period.

Teaching Resources:

Culpeper’s Complete Herbal, 1653. Wordsworth Reference, reprinted 1995.

David D. Friedman's Recreational Medievalism Page http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Medieval.html

De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine. Platina. ca. 1465

Delightes for Ladies, 1609, printed in A Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Cookbooks. Fourth Edition, Volume 1. 1987. Duke Cariodoc of the Bow and Duchessa Diana Alena.

Dutch Eenen Nyeuwen coock Boeck (1560). Gheeraert Vorselman. Translated by Lord Floris van Montfort of the Shire of Polderslot, Kingdom of Drachenwald.

Florilegium Files. http://www.florilegium.org

From the Forme of Cury: Lombard Mustard. http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/FoC108small.html

From Das Kuchbuch der Sabrina Welserin (1533). http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html

From Marx Rumpolt, Ein New Kochbuch, c. 1581: Brown Mustard Sauce. http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_sauce1.htm

Le Menagier De Paris. http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Menagier/Menagier.html

Liber Cur Cocorum. Copied and edited from the Sloan MS. 1986. http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/Icc/LCC32small.html and http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/Icc/LCC33small.html

Medieval Mustards – History and Hands On. Class and Handout by HL Gwen A’Brooke at Calontir Cooking Symposium 2007.

Viandier of Taillevent. 13^th Century. Translated by Terence Scully. University of Ottawa Press. 1988.

www.greydragon.org/library/mustard.html

www.lehigh.edu/~jahb/herbs/Mustards.html

www.gsdunn.com/all-about-mustard6b.html

Syllabus humbly made for RUGA by Eithne Ruad, 6/24/07.