clockless

Updated: May 11, 2025

True to his race, the Ménagier includes recipes for cooking frogs and snails. To the modern cook some of his directions may appear somewhat vague, as when he bids his cook to boil something for as long as it takes to say a paternoster or a miserere; yet for clockless kitchens in a pious age what clearer indication could a man give?

Eileen Edna Power - Medieval People