Pumpes

Mmm...pumpes...My order for cubebs has been placed.

Pumpes are a medieval meatball and cubebs are one of the ingredients. They're a Jawanese peppercorn. (You should have seen me at Penzey's, a spice store, yesterday. I got some weird looks when I told the folks what I was after: "Um, yeah, I'm trying to recreate a 15th century recipe...") The sauce requires almond milk so I'm going to make that myself which means that I need to go buy some cheesecloth. Hopefully the cubebs shall get here sometime this week and I can make me some pumpes next weekend! In the meantime, I'm going to try to brandy some peaches and perhaps try a recipe from my new Polish cookbook - pheasant stewed in mead.