Pario Gallico -Historical Food And Crafts-

After a dense rain shower, cold and dripping wet, nothing more comforting than a hot vegetable pot! Celeriac, kale, wild garlic, cabbage, parsnips, thyme... Yep, Iron Age leftovers make great dishes ;)
#ironagekitchen #cooking #stew #casserole #vegetables #ancientfood #traditionalfood #leftovers

And another one from the Berrycroft Hub Page! Part of the Iron Age cooking course was to make your own bread dough using different types of flours and ingredients (eggs, butter, buttermilk, milk, ale...) then choosing the fillings: cheese and wild garlic / ramsons were very successful ;) . . .... #ironage #ancientfood #ancientbritain #celts #berrycrofthub #cookingcourse #outdoorcooking #campfire #recipe #historicalfood #foodhistory #historyoffood #outdoorlearning #ancientskills #traditional #traditionalfood #adultlearning #archaeology #prehistory #ironagekitchen #kale #porkstew #swindon #oxfordshire #livinghistory #experimentalarchaeology #breadmaking #flatbread #foraging #wildplants #cheesybread #skillet #wildgarlicbread #ramsons #cheese #ancienttastes #saxons #anglosaxon #viking #museums
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WOW. This is the BEST video example of how well cooking in pottery over a wood fire works. I never managed to do it, but Berrycroft Hub Page really did capture the ''essence'' of our Ancient Cooking Courses! . The Berrycroft Hub Page is an amazing place full of fantastic tutors, hosts and participants, organising brilliant courses, workshops and classes as well researched as entertaining about MANY different topics (from flintknapping to sword casting, plants identification..., ancient cooking or entomology :) . . . #ironage #ancientfood #ancientbritain #celts #berrycrofthub #cookingcourse #outdoorcooking #campfire #cookingpot #pottery #pots #recipe #historicalfood #foodhistory #historyoffood #outdoorlearning #ancientskills #traditional #traditionalfood #adultlearning #archaeology #prehistory #replicas #ironagekitchen #kale #porkstew #swindon #oxfordshire #livinghistory #experimentalarchaeology
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Great day at Mary Arden's Farm: lots of rare breeds baby animals, #crafts AND the magnificent living history #Tudor kitchen! @ShakespeareBT What a #fireplace 💗 Got new ideas to turn #leftovers into tasty (and safe!) dishes & a sneaky peak into the #spices chest. . . . #historyoffood #maryardensfarm #tudor #tudorhouse #tudorkitchens #historicalreplicas #traditionalpottery #pottery #woodenfurniture #historicalplace #palmersfarm #livinghistoryfarms #periodinterpreter #cookingonfire #fireplace #spices #spicechest #16thcentury #shakespeare #rarebreeds #tudorfood #atmosphere #historicalplace #farmhouse #tudorfood @ Mary Arden's Farm

Woohoo! I will be at the Bushcraft Show: - Saturday 25th demonstrating Iron Age cooking and running an Iron Age Cooking workshop - Sunday 26th May presenting ancient paints and pigments and running a Ancient Art class.
Tempted? This event is AMAZING. If you like outdoors, ancient / historical crafts, nature, survival, new skills, activities, wildlife and so on... check the website and join us there ;)

Great evening at #greystonesfarmnaturereserve for their first Beltane Festival! We'll run an Iron Age cooking course on 18th May inside their roundhouse, right on the #hillfort land! About 6 places left, check Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust website to book one or more... Quickly ;) . Don't forget to visit Corinium Museum before or after this workshop: you might recognise some artefacts! . .... . . . #archaeology #outdoorlife #outdoorfun #foodhistory #museumreplicas #ironagekitchen #ironage #ancientbriton #cookingclass #cookingoverfire #cookingpots #pottery #nativeplants #nativeflavours #celticbritain #celts #naturereserve #wildlifetrusts #gloucestershirewildlifetrust #outdoorevents #outdooreducator #ancientskills #traditionalcooking #healthycooking #gloucestershire #cirencester #kale #turniprock #ancientrecipes
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Apparently the highlight of the course was butter making by hand! Very successful pupils and both butter and buttermilk were used to make flat breads and oat cakes 😉 #berrycrofthub . . .... #ironage #experimentalarchaeology #cookingclass #butter #makingbutter #buttermilk #recipe #ancientbritons #ancientcooking #traditionalskills #ancienttechniques #butterpad #handsonlearning
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Many participants had a good go at using my tiny mini froe (not that I had forgotten the big one at all..). It's so easy to use (safe and fun too, kids can use it 😉) and I was asked where I found it. Well... The blacksmith made it for me! Feel free to contact Thomas at Big Beynon's Blacksmithing to order anything

Wonderful day yesterday at the Berrycroft Hub Page for this first of a series of Iron Age cooking workshops! Next one: 8th June (a few places left!).
Lovely and VERY creative participants! Photos and menu to follow soon: we had two teams cooking two different dishes, both delicious, then making fresh butter and flat breads / pasties with savoury and sweet fillings.
... Cherry on top? Amazing homemade Berrycroft Hub cakes at the end ;)
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In the forge today with @big_beynons_blacksmithing learning how little Iron Age knives are made and giving a hand on the polishing/sharpening.
- Manching type ring knife, late Iron Age. - Danebury hillfort socketed knife, late Ion Age / early Romano-British.
... Can't wait to try some out tomorrow at the Berrycroft Hub for our Iron Age cooking workshop! Interested? Check the Berrycroft Hub's website to book online (and quickly): a 2nd course is running on 25th May 😀 . . . . . #berrycrofthub #cookingcourse #ironagebritain #ironage #ancientfood #thehistoryoffood #firecooking #archaeology #experimentalarchaeology #knives #cookingknife #blacksmithing #replica #museumreplicas #traditionalfood #manching #daneburyhillfort #oppidum #oppidummanching #forgedinfire #handforgedknife #blacksmiths #swindon #hereford
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I will run a Tudor Cooking day at Oak House, West Bromwich on Sunday 19th May 2019, BUT we need your opinion to choose what activity to offer: make a difference AND get a chance to book on a very discounted workshop as you'll be the first to know about it!
1- All day Tudor Cooking course (£40-60/pers. Adults only (16yo +), Participants: 10 max. 4 min.) Prepare a 3 course meal cooked over the fire (choice of pottage, chicken and almonds, sweet and sour cabbage, frumenty...) ...then making sweet treats to take home: gingerbread, marchepane...
2- Half day Tudor Cooking workshop ( £25-35/pers. Open to 12yo +, Participants: 10 max. 4 min.) Potage, frumenty, fish cakes, bread, butter... for morning sessions. Sweet treats, possibly making pies and tarts and taking them home to bake for the afternoon.
3- Tudor cooking activity: 2 hours (open to families and kids (accompanied). £10-20/pers or a price per family or adult+child.) Gingerbread, marchpane, making bread and butter, cooking fruits over the fire, fishcakes etc...
Please give your ipinion on the following poll, thank you :)
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Ancient paints and pigments display last weekend at @cressing.temple Cold + making fiddly goat hair paintbrushes = concentration! (Shield on the right: tempera paint on leather underside with hide glue. Dacian design ( Romania 1st BC) . . .... #publicoutreach #outdooreducator #museumactivity #ironagebritain #naturalcraft #antiquearchaeology #livinghistoryphotography #historic #pigments #heritagesite #craftdemonstrations #ancientarts #essexhistory #celticbritain
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Beltain, Beltane, Beltaine... anyhow, the Celtic Spring Festival will be celabrated for the FIRST EDITION at Greystones Farm, part of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, on Saturday 27th April!
Right on the site of an Iron Age hillfort (you can see and walk around the traces of the walls!), come and discover the roundhouse, the Iron Age blacksmith and learn more about how and what were the Britons eating and cooking before the Roman conquest in Gloucestershire.. and many other a...ctivities!
I will be cooking over the fire in the roundhouse, so if you fancy taking a seat and enjoying the evening with music and bonfire on this natural site... book your tickets now and join us ;)
You cannot attend Beltane Festival BUT you are interested in Iron Age / ancient celtic or outdoor / campfire food? => Book a place on the Iron Age open-fire cookery course I will run at Greystones Farm, in the roundhouse (!!), on Saturday 18th May: https://www.facebook.com/events/300281180 679365/
There are still some places available, and if you'd like to come with children, we might be able to sort something out (contact me directly) ;)
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A day of Roman living history around the Novium museum and in Chichester. On the menu: Roman cookery demonstration... and tasters! More info to come, but keep an eye on The Novium Museum s website and page! ;)

Fantastic outdoor, bushcraft event over 3 days with lots of activities, demonstrations, classes, shows, music, talks etc! This year will welcome a pole of ancient crafts, Archaeology and Prehistory orientated... Including Big Beynon's Blacksmithing Ancient Craft - James Dilley and me! -- Saturday: cookery class 1:30 - 4:30pm -- Sunday: ancient art class 10:00 - 12:00am + Live demonstrations all day.
... Visit the event's website and look at the "Specialist instructions" section to book a space... They quickly go!
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Are you not a tad cold? Because I am. And when it happens I got back to tasty simple basics, so let's make some ancient comfort food! ;)
Title: HONEY OAT CAKES Also called sweet blandaa breads* and ''Prehistory Flapjacks''. *(named from a traditional Shetland Islands recipe of oat cakes)
... Datation: Ever since you have oats, butter and honey around (see below: Neolithic as secondary ... until nowadays! In Britain oats are considered to have been a weed in first farmers' fields. They grew in a wild form before being cultivated and then used as a ''secondary crop'' if the harvest of the main one failed. So from 200BC / Bronze Age onwards you should be fine. And don't think that only northern parts of the british isles used oats! As they can be baked over a hot stone, a skillet, a pan, a flat iron etc... no need to wait the introduction of metal frying pans in Britain to enjoy these tasties.
RECIPE: 500gr rolled oats 210gr honey* 115gr butter 2 pinches salt 1/4 cup of milk OR water OR mead, fruit juice.. Any liquid! (optional seeds, berries, nuts)
*way less honey would have been used throughout history, but customers have a very sweet tooth these days. This is an amount of sweetness I can tolerate, though I'm happy with 180gr honey as well personally.
Melt the butter and honey together in a pan. Mix oats and salt in a bowl. Add the liquid to the bowl, pour the melted mixture on top and mix until well absorbed, when hot, with a spoon/spatula first, then when cooler use your hands to knead the dough.
Knead until the mix becomes sticky (the gluten is released by the heat and the kneading) and holds together, or until your arms fall off. Usually about 10 minutes.
Let the mix cool down, it's easier to shape into balls (walnut size), then to flaten them as cakes 5mm thick (1/4 inch for you, non-metric-system aficionados).
Bake at 180c for about 15minutes on a tray lined with baking paper. Bake as long as it takes for them to get golden and hold together on a skillet / hot stone, then turn them and let them brown a little on the other side. Careful! They'll be soft and breakable when just bakes, but let them cool down and they will get sturdier and transportable!
Enjoy with a cup of nettle or fruit tea, hot milk (that already tastes very sweet by nature) or warm with cooked apple slices... so comforting ;)
#Vikingfood #ancientfood #ironage #bronzeage #foodhistory #culinaryarchaeology #archaeology #saxons #ancientbritain #historicalfood #outdoorcooking #campfirecooking #flapjackrecipe #cooking #oats #honey #traditionalfood #cookingcourse
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Iron Age life food and cooking demonstration.
http://www.miltonkeynesmuseum.org.uk/hist ory-festival-at-c…/
''Milton Keynes steps back in time with a huge weekend celebrating 2000 years of history
... Fun for all ages
One of the flagship events to celebrate MK50 in 2017 made history itself – by delivering Milton Keynes’ biggest ever historical re-enactment!
Now, two years on, Campbell Park will again be transformed from its usual tranquil green space into a place lively with clashes, battles, and even maybe even Royalty.
A huge and colourful programme will bring all the sights and sounds, and some of the smells from times past, into the present.
The Festival of History is being organised by the Heritage MK Partners – Milton Keynes Museum, Bletchley Park, City Discovery Centre, Cowper and Newton Museum and the Living Archive – in partnership with The Parks Trust.
The full programme will be posted here closer to the event, but you can get ready for a brilliantly accessible, colourful, creative weekend.
In fact, it will be so good that money can’t buy it – admission will be FREE.''
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