"Medieval" recipes

Here is a site with some information, and a recipe link is at the bottom of the page.

http://www.medieval-recipes.com/recipes/bread/

And here is a site with information about barley flour.

http://www.bobsredmill.com/barley-flour.html

I hope this helps.

made with whole flour and sourdough will get you what you want.   :)

One of our Fresh Loafers in the UK did this a few years ago and had some great info. Try a  search "medieval" here and see what pops. I believe there was also a German heritage post. 

Such a worldly site!

You probably don't want to be too authentic, flour quality and contents weren't always what it is today.  I have read that lots things such as chalk and sawdust where used to stretch the flour.  Also back then northern European wheat was not the same as today and most people ate much more rye flour than we do, well in North America anyway.

Gerhard

In the summer of 2011 we went on a holiday to Cape Breton and there is a restored French fortress there.  It is a place where the do reenactments including a restaurant that serves food appropriate for the 17th or 18th century.  It was probably more of a tourist trap than anything but it was a lot of fun as well.  They seat the customers at communal tables and we ended up sitting with people that lived about 30 miles from us even though we where at a place 2,000 km away.

Gerhard

You can try this site. It specializes in 18th century cooking. There are some bread recipes.

 http://www.jas-townsend.com

Tal

Apparently there are different definitions.  I have just read one description of "early 19th century!" (What???)  

For me (and I'm sure many others)  "medieval" is Europe's "middle ages"  from the fall of the Roman Empire to 1453, before the Renaissance.  Before Christopher Columbus in America... (pre-columbian  ;)

...So if including North America (a fun twist to think about) native Americans were eating corn, acorn, arrow root and cattail cakes to name a few starches.  Other seeds, berries and animal fats would be added by season fresh or dried out of season.   Amazing enough there are cattail bread recipes but they are combined with wheat so therefore a later date than "medieval" but interesting non the less.  Wouldn't surprise me if some of the European settlers combined cattail starch with wheat to make bread.

the middle ages in Europe.  From what I can remember, the fall of the Roman Empire is conventionally dated at the year 476.  And interestingly, there is speculation that a massive tropical volcano eruption in 536 and a secondary eruption in 542 caused conditions like a volcanic winter from the amount of ash in the atmosphere. This would have decreased the amount of sunlight able to make it to Earth, making the "Dark Ages" actually literally dark.  The diminished sunlight would most certainly have affected cereal crops like wheat, which would have prompted creative peasants to explore alternative starch sources as Mini noted.