Cooking up a Medieval Magna Carta Treat- for the radio?

On May 28th, BBC Wiltshire Radio came to the Assistant Curator's home to record the cooking of a medieval feast.

Katherine made sure to choose recipes that reflected the different classes of society, and also ones which made bubbling, grinding and grating noises. Well, it was for radio.

Tart in Ember day, gingerbread, sugared rose petals and other medieval delights

Museum Manager Hannah Lyddy produced gingerbread (made without baking and including a fair dash of white pepper), frumenty (using cracked wheat) and hypocras or spiced wine, given a bit of heat by the rare spice galangal.
Katherine produced a type of flan that would have been acceptable on a fast day, a green omelette and a seriously rich liver pate called "garbage". Rose petals were prepared for preserving by dusting them with egg white and pounded sugar, a very expensive item in the Middle Ages, at the time of Magna Carta.
Everything was declared very tasty by Marie from BBC Wiltshire.

The proud cooks and their interviewer Marie

The interview will be broadcast during the main week of Magna Carta celebrations, focused around June 15th 2015.