by Baronessa Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia
~ One shall cut a young chicken in two and wrap about it whole leaves of salvia, and cut up in it bacon and add salt to suit the taste. Then cover that with dough and bake like bread in the oven. ~
Chicken wrapped in dough, about to be baked.
Possibly the best use ever for fresh sage, I first ate this dish about 15 year...
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medieval
Court & Craft Considered
by Baronessa Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia
Last Thursday, TRH Nasr ibn Isa & Eleanor Isabeau d'Autun, HE Robert of Canterbury and myself sojourned to the Courtauld Gallery for 'Court and Craft', a small but intense exhibition based around one particular artefact - a small, early C.14th bag made of brass, inlaid with gold and silver, and finely engraved wit...
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