Ancient and medival recipes

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In the used book bin at the RIT bookstore, I found a book Cooking and Recipes from Rome to the Renaissance. The recipes in it look interesting. Here's an example from ancient Rome:

4 oz hard crust of brown wholemeal bread, broken into large pieces
3/4 pt milk
4 oz honey

Soak the bread in milk for about an hour. Deep fry in olive oil until well browned and crisp. Drain. Warm honey and pour over before serving.

I'll try that one and look through the book for others to try for Thanksgiving. Honey is used because the ancient Romans didn't have sugar.

I found stuff on how to deep fry here.

Do you know recipes from long ago?
 
My mom told me that her mom cooked Pork Ears....

That as far I know how slaves eat.

And at Kroger store, I saw Pork Brain, who the hell eat that?
 
Pork brains! I've seen those...Dave Barry included those in his Ultimate Gift Guide. Yeah, who WOULD eat those? EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Ancient medieval recipe:

Hunt rabbit.
Kill rabbit.
Skin rabbit.
Don't wash rabbit or hands.
Roast rabbit on spit.
Eat when black or red.
Don't wash hands.

;) JK
 
I've tried a few Renaissance recipes while at those Renaissance festivals. ;)
 
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