Tasting History with Max Miller
Season 2020
2020 · 48 episodes
1. How to Make Medieval Cheese
2020-02-25 · 7m
I'll show you step by step and give a bit of the history of cheese, from Egypt, to Greece, to WWII and Nixon. Learn how we went from curdled milk in a sheep stomach to the wide world of cheese we know today.
2. Baking A Medieval Cheesecake - The History of the Sambocade
2020-03-03 · 12m
In this episode, I make a medieval elderflower cheesecake - a Sambocade. I explore how this dessert is the link between the ancient cheesecake given to Greek Olympians and the modern NY style cheesecake we love today.
3. Making 400 Year Old Buttered Beere
2020-03-10 · 9m
In this episode, I show you how to make your own alcoholic (and non-alcoholic) Buttered Beere and we explore the importance of beer and ale in Medieval and Renaissance England.
4. Cooking Medieval Dessert for Lent: Bruet of Almaynne in lente
2020-03-17 · 10m
I show you how to make your own almond milk and look at the medieval diet during Lent and other fasting. I also explore some of the ways people made sure they could still eat well while observing their fast, even if that mean considering a beaver a fish.
5. Apple Muse for the Plague - The Four Humors
2020-03-24 · 8m
6. Weird Cures for the Black Plague - Candied Horseradish
2020-03-24 · 9m
7. What does a 1920s BIRTHDAY CAKE taste like?
2020-03-30 · 11m
8. How to Make a MEDIEVAL TRENCHER - Torte Bread
2020-04-07 · 8m
9. Cooking A CAPON Dish For A Medieval King - Sweet Measure
2020-04-12 · 6m
10. Making Medieval Fig Spread - Rapé - History of the Fig
2020-04-17 · 9m
11. Making a Medieval TART DE BRY (Brie Tart) - Brie: The King of Cheese
2020-04-28 · 13m
12. Anglo-Saxon Oatcakes - How Not To Burn King Alfred's Cakes
2020-05-05 · 13m
13. The Softest Bread In England - How To Make 18th Century Sally Lunn Buns
2020-05-12 · 15m
14. How to Bake Medieval Rastons - The Life of a Miller
2020-05-19 · 17m
15. History's Fluffiest Dessert! - Everlasting Syllabub
2020-05-26 · 14m
16. Cooking from THE FORME OF CURY: England's First Cookbook - Galyntyne Sauce
2020-06-03 · 14m
17. I finally made GARUM - Ancient Rome's favorite condiment
2020-06-09 · 16m
18. Oldest Cookbook in the West - APICIUS - Ancient Roman Mussels
2020-06-16 · 14m
19. A Tart to Topple a King - Lombardy Custard
2020-06-23 · 16m
20. A Dish for the First 4th of July... and why it should be on the 2nd.
2020-06-30 · 14m
21. The Poisonous History of Tomatoes - Pomodori Farciti all’Erbette (1773)
2020-07-07 · 11m
22. The Bread of ANCIENT ROME - Pompeii's Panis Quadratus
2020-07-14 · 13m
23. Making Hippocras at Home - Medieval Spiced Wine
2020-07-21 · 18m
24. Civil War Bread Pudding
2020-07-28 · 14m
25. KYKEON - The Drink of Greek Heroes
2020-08-04 · 14m
26. Payasam - Medieval India & Dessert for the King
2020-08-11 · 14m
27. The Wonderful History of Pancakes
2020-08-18 · 16m
28. Loseyns - Medieval English Lasagna!
2020-08-25 · 17m
29. The Strange Flavor of Parthian Chicken from Ancient Rome
2020-09-01 · 17m
30. FARTS OF PORTINGALE - A Shakespearean Treat
2020-09-08 · 12m
31. Quesadillas Cernidas & Aztec Maize
2020-09-15 · 16m
32. Yuanxiao from the Ming Dynasty
2020-09-22 · 17m
33. Precedella - 1500's Pretzels made with Wine
2020-09-29 · 16m
34. Spartan BLACK BROTH - Melas Zomos
2020-10-06 · 16m
35. Scappi's Renaissance Herb Torte
2020-10-13 · 18m
36. The History of Sugar Part 1 - Medieval Arabian Pistachio and Rose Candy
2020-10-20 · 18m
37. The History of Sugar Part 2 - Victoria Punch
2020-10-27 · 19m
38. Soul Cakes & Trick-or-Treating
2020-10-30 · 13m
39. Silphium: The Lost Aphrodisiac of Ancient Rome
2020-11-03 · 19m
40. Making Medieval Mead like a Viking
2020-11-10 · 19m
41. Pumpion Pie from 1670
2020-11-17 · 17m
42. What Did Medieval Peasants Eat?
2020-11-24 · 17m
43. Figgy Pudding - A Victorian Christmas Tradition
2020-12-01 · 19m
44. Unwrapping Aztec Tamales - The Tamale Wars
2020-12-08 · 20m
45. Celebrating Saturnalia with Cato's Globi
2020-12-15 · 17m
46. Making Medieval Gingerbread
2020-12-20 · 15m
47. Eggnog: A Christmas History
2020-12-22 · 16m
48. A 4000 Year Old Recipe for the Babylonian New Year
2020-12-29 · 18m
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