Dr Christopher Monk
Medieval manuscripts, languages & cultures. I write about & cook medieval food @ modernmedievalcuisine.com; create public history content for heritage professionals & collaborate with creatives: themedievalmonk.com/projects--publicati…
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- These ginger-spiced pears in wine are easy to make and are perfect if you have a few not-quite-ripe pears in your fruit bowl. The recipe is FREE to download during February. buymeacoffee.com/monksmmc/e/48571
- Reposted by Dr Christopher MonkThe list of my publications on my wordpress site has been now updated - many are freely downloadable from the site. 💐 profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com
- Reposted by Dr Christopher Monk🐍 #NationalSerpentDay is dedicated to snake appreciation, understanding their role in ecosystems, and helping to overcome fear or misconceptions about them, such as this one... This #myth was likely based on #oarfish sightings. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2014/10/the-... #ILoveBHL 📖 🧪
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- Find my new recipe for Turnip Pottage, based on Richard II's recipe. A little spicy and surprisingly moreish. 😋😋😋 Plus a brief history of the turnip in medieval England. You know you've always wanted to know about this subject! 😆 modernmedievalcuisine.com/2026/01/18/t...
- Reposted by Dr Christopher Monk142 years ago, on the 1st of February 1884, the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published. The work spanned from 'A' to 'Ant'. It took until 1928 for the final volume, up to and including words starting with 'Z' to be published. #otd #history 🗃️
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- Reposted by Dr Christopher MonkA quick head's up for my monthly subscribers...The Secret British Food History Podcast has loads of new material: uncut interviews from my Burns Night specials (+ a bonus whisky tasting) AND the season 8 Easter Eggs featuring good folk such as: Jp McMahon, @dranniegray.bsky.social & Ivan Day
- Find my new recipe for Turnip Pottage, based on Richard II's recipe. A little spicy and surprisingly moreish. 😋😋😋 Plus a brief history of the turnip in medieval England. You know you've always wanted to know about this subject! 😆 modernmedievalcuisine.com/2026/01/18/t...
- Reposted by Dr Christopher MonkHave you listened to the first of my podcast specials about Burns Night? This episode looks into the history of haggis & the first Burns Nights with the fantastic @medievalfoodjennie.bsky.social The BritishFood History Podcast is available on all podcast apps: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
- Find my new recipe for Turnip Pottage, based on Richard II's recipe. A little spicy and surprisingly moreish. 😋😋😋 Plus a brief history of the turnip in medieval England. You know you've always wanted to know about this subject! 😆 modernmedievalcuisine.com/2026/01/18/t...
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- Reposted by Dr Christopher MonkMy next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee! www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
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- After all the festive feasting, we need lighter, perhaps even penitential fare! 🤣 Well, I've been experimenting today with a 14th-century turnip pottage recipe. But this is no peasant dish! With spices and saffron, it was fit for a king (Richard II, in fact). My recipe forthcoming on my blog. 👀
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- 1 of 2 Still one of my favourite Monk's Modern Medieval Cuisine dishes, absolutely perfect on cold winter days. The recipe is now free to download throughout January. Video youtu.be/ftcBJxFDnRE?... Recipe in part 2 👇
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- 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
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- 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
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- Reposted by Dr Christopher MonkI'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...
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- 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! 😆
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- Beautiful 😍
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- This looks fantastic! Congratulations @mrssbilton.bsky.social 👏
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