1. Hearty Viking Stew A staple in the Viking diet, this rich and flavorful stew is made with slow-cooked meats, root vegetables, and a mix of earthy spices. This recipe is perfect for a cold winter night or a filling meal after a long day of adventure. Ingredients: 1 lb beef or venison, cubed 2 onions, chopped 3 carrots, chopped 2 parsnips, chopped Cheese and butter Baking bread Porridge Meat and fish Soup Drink Green And some more. Making cheese in the Viking and Middle Ages By Sten Hansson, Foteviken The written sources mention cheese in different situations. In old nordic litterature fresh cheese in recommended for poor health, for healing wounds and against scurvy and kidney stones.
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NORWEGIAN RHUBARB AND ALMOND CAKE This lovely breakfast cake hails from Norway where rhubarb thrives in the chilly climate. GRAVADLAX WITH CUCUMBER PICKLE AND DILL MUSTARD MAYONNAISE ~ Donal Skehan This gorgeous silky cured salmon with fresh dill is probably what comes to mind first when you think Scandinavian food. Vikings ate a diet based around the foods that were available to them, which included meats like beef, pork, and lamb; fish like herring and cod; grains such as rye and barley; vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, and leeks; fruits such as apples and berries; dairy products like butter and cheese, as well as honey cakes for dessert. Viking Recipes Meat 1. Viking Lamb 2. Leg of Lamb with Mint and Garlic Butter 3. Apple Bacon 4. Boiled Pork 5. Honey-Roasted Chicken 6. Meat Soups 7. Kale and Salt Pork 8. Boiled Chicken with Leeks and Prunes 9. Tabahajah 10.Chicken Stew With Beer fish Vikings used whatever they had at their disposal. This recipe includes many variations as well as what to serve with it. Crockpot recipes have become insanely popular and for good reason. They are easy to cook and you can put almost anything in them. Jump to: What makes this unique Useful equipment Ingredients needed Alternatives
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"The Vikings had a wide range of food and wild herbs available to make tasty and nutritious dishes," says Diana Bertelsen, who helped research and develop recipes for Denmark's Ribe Viking. Ribe Viking Centre: Viking cooking at home Recipes Dishes of the season Flatbread in three ways Fresh cream cheese with herbs Green pancakes with nettle and spinach Breakfast porridge with apple and honey Fruit marinated in mead Planked salmon Frida's sourdough bread Elderflower pancakes Green patties Eat your weeds! Beer marinated pork 'Eat Like a Viking' is a handy guide to authentic Viking age food, with quick and simple recipes, easy to follow sections on brewing and baking and a reference list of ingredients. It's perfect for either reenactors, or for anyone who loves cooking on an open fire. Wild leaf herb and cheese stew. This recipe was recreated in Lofoten, Norway. (Photo by Stina Nannesson.) The same approach was of course possible when it came to Viking Age food because this an era where most scholars had looked at the food from a very economic point of view.
Viking recipe/Honey roasted chicken Viking food, Medieval recipes
2 leeks 2 celery sticks 4 large carrots 1 swede (or 2-3 turnips) 3 parsnips Water 1/2 a cup of porridge oats A few sprigs of wild garlic A handful of fresh mixed herbs, sage, thyme, rosemary or whatever is available. Method Heat the butter/oil in a large stock pot/Dutch oven over a low-medium flame. Put the pigeon in a pot with the stock, wine, pepper and cloves and cook very slowly for an hour. Add the chicken and continue to cook for a further 45 minutes or till the meat of both birds is really tender. Meanwhile cook the mushrooms lightly in the butter. Remove the birds from the stock and bone them.
Cover the egg in clay in a layer at most 1 cm thick. Poke a few holes in the clay. Place the egg on the embers and cover it. Cook for about 12 minutes. Slice and clean the fish. Tie it together and cover package it in clay. With good heat cook for about 30 minutes. Cut off the wings and pluck off all larger feathers. Set a few pats of butter atop the chicken. Place the chicken into the oven and immediately lower the oven temperature to 400°F. Roast for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until the vegetables are cooked, chicken's skin is golden, and the chicken registers 165°F in the thigh. Transfer the chicken to a cutting board and tent with foil.
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Unfortunately, due to a lack of recipes recorded in Viking times, there are no truly authentic Viking recipes. However, scientists have been able to recreate diets based on information received from examining the remains of corpses found at archeological digs and knowledge of the types of food available in each region. Water. Egg. Polish the leg of lamb and cut small pockets into the flesh by piercing it with a sharp knife. Stuff each pocket with herbs and garlic. Make the salt dough and make sure it is firm and feels slightly dry, like Play-Doh. Roll out the salt crust to wrap and enclose the meat. Press the seams together.
