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Gingerbread – this was a popular cake with the recipe using honey, breadcrumbs, ground ginger and cloves. Here is a delicious recipe you can try at home for making medieval style gingerbread. Amongst the most common ingredients in medieval cake baking were honey, fruit, nuts, spices and cheese.
Medieval cakes did exist but they were much plainer than what we are accustomed to eating today. This was mainly because of the lack of sugar and so the results of what they baked were quite bland and basic. Nevertheless, cake could be quite tasty and offer a pleasant contrast the staple medieval diet of daily pottage and bread.
Yes they even had waffles in medieval times. Gingerbread – this was a popular cake with the recipe using honey, breadcrumbs, ground ginger and cloves. Here is a delicious recipe you can try at home for making medieval style gingerbread. Amongst the most common ingredients in medieval cake baking were honey, fruit, nuts, spices and cheese.
According to culinary historian Gil Marks, the earliest cakes in the world, baked in the ancient Near East many millennia ago, were probably made of mashed legumes and honey (hey, if black bean brownies are a thing, why not?).
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