Tasting History with Max Miller - Season 2020
1 - How to Make Medieval Cheese
Air Date: February 25, 2020
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
Air Date: March 3, 2020
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
Air Date: March 10, 2020
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
Air Date: March 17, 2020
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
Air Date: March 24, 2020
6 - Weird Cures for the Black Plague - Candied Horseradish
Air Date: March 24, 2020
7 - What does a 1920s BIRTHDAY CAKE taste like?
Air Date: March 30, 2020
8 - How to Make a MEDIEVAL TRENCHER - Torte Bread
Air Date: April 7, 2020
9 - Cooking A CAPON Dish For A Medieval King - Sweet Measure
Air Date: April 12, 2020
10 - Making Medieval Fig Spread - Rapé - History of the Fig
Air Date: April 17, 2020
11 - Making a Medieval TART DE BRY (Brie Tart) - Brie: The King of Cheese
Air Date: April 28, 2020
12 - Anglo-Saxon Oatcakes - How Not To Burn King Alfred's Cakes
Air Date: May 5, 2020
13 - The Softest Bread In England - How To Make 18th Century Sally Lunn Buns
Air Date: May 12, 2020
14 - How to Bake Medieval Rastons - The Life of a Miller
Air Date: May 19, 2020
15 - History's Fluffiest Dessert! - Everlasting Syllabub
Air Date: May 26, 2020
16 - Cooking from THE FORME OF CURY: England's First Cookbook - Galyntyne Sauce
Air Date: June 3, 2020
17 - I finally made GARUM - Ancient Rome's favorite condiment
Air Date: June 9, 2020
18 - Oldest Cookbook in the West - APICIUS - Ancient Roman Mussels
Air Date: June 16, 2020
19 - A Tart to Topple a King - Lombardy Custard
Air Date: June 23, 2020
20 - A Dish for the First 4th of July... and why it should be on the 2nd.
Air Date: June 30, 2020
21 - The Poisonous History of Tomatoes - Pomodori Farciti all’Erbette (1773)
Air Date: July 7, 2020
22 - The Bread of ANCIENT ROME - Pompeii's Panis Quadratus
Air Date: July 14, 2020
23 - Making Hippocras at Home - Medieval Spiced Wine
Air Date: July 21, 2020
24 - Civil War Bread Pudding
Air Date: July 28, 2020
25 - KYKEON - The Drink of Greek Heroes
Air Date: August 4, 2020
26 - Payasam - Medieval India & Dessert for the King
Air Date: August 11, 2020
27 - The Wonderful History of Pancakes
Air Date: August 18, 2020
28 - Loseyns - Medieval English Lasagna!
Air Date: August 25, 2020
29 - The Strange Flavor of Parthian Chicken from Ancient Rome
Air Date: September 1, 2020
30 - FARTS OF PORTINGALE - A Shakespearean Treat
Air Date: September 8, 2020
31 - Quesadillas Cernidas & Aztec Maize
Air Date: September 15, 2020
32 - Yuanxiao from the Ming Dynasty
Air Date: September 22, 2020
33 - Precedella - 1500's Pretzels made with Wine
Air Date: September 29, 2020
34 - Spartan BLACK BROTH - Melas Zomos
Air Date: October 6, 2020
35 - Scappi's Renaissance Herb Torte
Air Date: October 13, 2020
36 - The History of Sugar Part 1 - Medieval Arabian Pistachio and Rose Candy
Air Date: October 20, 2020
37 - The History of Sugar Part 2 - Victoria Punch
Air Date: October 27, 2020
38 - Soul Cakes & Trick-or-Treating
Air Date: October 30, 2020
39 - Silphium: The Lost Aphrodisiac of Ancient Rome
Air Date: November 3, 2020
40 - Making Medieval Mead like a Viking
Air Date: November 10, 2020
41 - Pumpion Pie from 1670
Air Date: November 17, 2020
42 - What Did Medieval Peasants Eat?
Air Date: November 24, 2020
43 - Figgy Pudding - A Victorian Christmas Tradition
Air Date: December 1, 2020
44 - Unwrapping Aztec Tamales - The Tamale Wars
Air Date: December 8, 2020
45 - Celebrating Saturnalia with Cato's Globi
Air Date: December 15, 2020
46 - Making Medieval Gingerbread
Air Date: December 20, 2020
47 - Eggnog: A Christmas History
Air Date: December 22, 2020
48 - A 4000 Year Old Recipe for the Babylonian New Year
Air Date: December 29, 2020