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To bake pigeons in short paest as you make to your baken apples.

Season your pigeons with peper / saffron / cloves and mace / with vergis and salt / then put them into your paest and so close them vp / and bake them / these will bake in halfe an houre / then take them forth / and if ye thynke them drye take a litle vergis and butter and put to them and so serue them.

Just one of the recipes you'll find digging around in the fascinating godecookery.com, an online compendium of "food in the Middle Ages, ...Chaucer, mythical plants, fantastic fish, pestilence, the macabre and clipart woodcuts."

(via "1000 non-RPG websites for RPG Ideas")