Gunpowder—as opposed to modern smokeless powder —isn't used much these days in current weaponry, although it's still useful for historical weapons and remains popular for fireworks and other ...

Just as new fruits and vegetables come into season, so too do the longer nights invite dishes that nourish as much as they feed! We suggest taking a swing at joojeh kebab, or the iconic Persian ...

Islanders will be treated to an annual summer fete in a celebration of Castle Cornet's medieval history on Sunday. The Fete d ...

Using Le Viandier de Taillevent, one of the oldest French cookbooks out there, I recreated historically accurate images based on recipes for a 14th-century banquet at the royal court in Paris.

Barrows looked up two recipes on the website medievalcookery.com, one a salmon roast in sauce and the other a 13th-century Dutch recipe for stewed venison.

7 eggs A few leaves of costmary or mint, minced 1/4 teaspoon pepper Small pinch of saffron, diffused in 1 tablespoon (15 ml) of water 1/4 cup (57 g) butter, melted Honey for drizzling, optional Sauce ...

image: Researchers tested medieval gunpowder recipes in this replica of an early 15th-century stone-throwing cannon. view more Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03380 ...

Medieval recipes instructed scientists to prepare the blue watercolor from the fruits of Chrozophora tinctoria. That provided enough dye to reveal its structure using a suite of chemical analysis ...

Data mining this text is no easy task. The recipes mention over 3,000 ingredients for the treatment of 113 different conditions.

Researchers have replicated five medieval inks using 15th and 16th century recipes. The fact that historical archives, libraries, museums, writing workshops and even monasteries, currently ...