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1 WEDNESDAY
APRIL 2009
Demonstration of Late-Mediaeval Cookery and Dinner
£99 416 a&b
Tamasin Day-Lewis and
Anne Menzies
Demonstration of Late-Mediaeval
Cookery in Wolsey’s Kitchen
3pm / Wolsey’s Kitchen, Christ Church /
(includes reception and dinner at 7pm)
A rare chance to step back 500 years into the
great mediaeval kitchen at Christ Church to watch
Tamasin Day-Lewis and Anne Menzies re-create
a noble dinner that Cardinal Wolsey would have
enjoyed. Wolsey founded the college and his power
rivalled Henry VIII’s. The food he ate affirmed his
status. Culinary discovery and invention characterise
the closing years of the Late-Mediaeval period. Learn
about the growing art of confectionary, the new
edible pastry with its pies, tarts and ornate custards,
the recent discovery called ‘snowe’, plus famous
mediaeval roasts and their sauces. And then, in
the evening, enjoy a mediaeval dinner prepared by
Tamasin Day-Lewis.
Portrait of Cardinal Wolsey in the Great Hall, Christ Church
A Mediaeval Dinner with
Tamasin Day-Lewis
The Re-creation of A Noble Dining
7pm / Freind Room, Christ Church
Includes drinks reception, 3-course dinner, wine
and coffee.
Tamasin Day-Lewis, one of our finest cookery
writers, and food writer Anne Menzies, are re-creating
a noble dinner that Cardinal Wolsey might have
enjoyed at Christ Church, some 500 years ago.
Come and enjoy that dinner Wolsey would have
consumed. He would have eaten only the very best.
Colour, workmanship and the increasingly important
spice called sugar would have affirmed his power.
A cardinal was served messes which would have
included a refined pottage, manchet bread, spiced
butters, roast meat or fish accompanied by its
sauce, herb salad, pie, an ornate tart, a custard and
a growing number of sweetened dishes. Hippocras,
the spiced red wine or ale, would have been served,
but water avoided at all costs!
Only 40 places are available, so please
book as early as possible.
Sponsored by Cox & Kings
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