Great news! After nearly a year of siege, the city of Leiden has finally been liberated! Since October 30th of last year, the city had been surrounded by General Francisco de Valdez. With his troops encircling the city, he tried to starve it into submission. After a brief interruption due to a diversionary battle led …
he war between the Netherlands and England, which has mostly been fought at sea so far, has now reached land as well. The war has mainly been about seizing each other’s colonies, but now even Terschelling has been attacked. Last night, at least 150 ships were burned near the village of West-Terschelling. These were mainly …
Today we received the shocking news that, after last week’s massacre in which 18 nobles from the Netherlands were killed in the market in Brussels, the Counts of Egmont and Horne have been beheaded. We received this news from our dear friend, Sister Maria Luyten. She says she will incorporate these significant events into her …
It has been a little quiet here of late.. But fear not! Our website will continue on our own pace. Some wonderful events have caused the big delay in posts, such as a new house, new occupations, a pregnancy and a birth. And in light of the last mentioned event, some posts inspired by the …
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You’ve dreamt of a big family since you were a small maiden. Now the time has finally arrived: your union has been blessed by the priest and hopefully your womb will be equally fulfilled. Even though we all know all life is a gift from God, a miracle and mystery, there are some things you …
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The holidays are over and even the Christmas tree has left the house. Although that’s a bit sad, it also makes room for new experiments in historical cooking! Because our fridge is still overflowing with all kinds of snacks we still need to finish, I wanted to make a recipe consisting of ingrediënts I already …
(For the actual recipe, see below)I’ve been interested in Medieval cooking for a long while. Imagine being able to travel back in time with at least one of your senses.. But I never had a good reason to really try it. But this blog gives me many reasons to try new things, so I’ve started …
You know how it goes.. It’s the hundreth day in a row in which you wake up with a headache. You take some willow bark from your medicine collection. In the kettle on the fire you boil it with some herbs. Exhausted you sit down at the kitchen table to take little sips from your …
