My latest 1520s Portuguese Dress - sneak peek before I write it up!

 

My other website

I also an interesting in 16th century Italian dress and food.  You can check this out on my other page here

Colegio Iberio classes video

The videos are now online for the classes I taught at the Colegio Iberio. 

Which of these is Portuguese:  Portuguese Women's Clothing 1500-1550

A Treatise of Portuguese Cuisine from the 15th century

Classes from the Colegio de Iberio

Here are links to my presentations from the Colegio de Iberio

Which of these is Portuguese: Portuguese Women's Dress 1500-1555

A Treatise of Portuguese Cooking from the 15th century

Portuguese Dress

Here are the two Portuguese dresses I made for our recent Baronial Anniversary.  The grey one is a day dress and undergown for the pink silk dress.  The pink silk dress is based on an image in The Visitation by Gregorio Lopes dating from 1525-30. Documentation can be read here

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Portuguese Dress Pinterest Board

One of my lockdown projects has to been to reorganise my Pinterest boards!  I started with my one on Portuguese Dress as I want this to be my big research project for the year.  I am particularly wanting to focus on Women's fashion in Portugal between 1520 and 1540 and to help me do this I am creating an inventory of useful dress images.   I am hoping to slowly create a wardrobe of Portuguese dresses and dress accessories!  My nicely arranged Portuguese dress board can be found here.

Portuguese Mince on Toast

We are currently in a COVID-19 lockdown so I thought it was time to break out the comfort food while in isolation.  Mince on toast has always been a family favourite so I was pleased to see a variant on this in the Um tratado da cozinha portuguesa do século XV.

Picadinho de carne de vaca

Lavem carne devaca bem macia, e piquem-na bem miudinha. A seguir adicionem-lhe cravo,açafrão, pimenta, gengibre, cheiro-verde bem cortadinho, cebola batida, vinagree sal. Refoguem tudo no azeite, e deixem cozinhar até secar a água. Sirvamsobre fatias de pão.

Beef mince (English translation found here)

Wash the tender cow's meat, and mince it well. Next add cloves, saffron, black pepper, ginger (I've never heard of cheiro-verde, it translate literally as"green-smell") well chopped, crushed onion, vinegar and salt. Saute everything in the olive oil, and let cook until it the juices dry. Serve over sliced bread.

My redaction

Ingredients

500gm beef 

1 t each of cloves, pepper and ginger

A pinch of saffron

1 T of parsley, chopped (less if dried)

1 onion, finely chopped

1 T vinegar (balsamic is nice, I also used a mix of pinot grigio and malt)

1 t salt

1 T olive oil

Method

Cook onion in olive oil until translucent then add mince and brown.

Add spices and cook until fragrant.

Add parsley and vinegar and continue to cook until mince is fully cooked.

Serve over bread/toast or I made flat breads which were delicious with it.

The mince has a lovely spicy flavour and the tang of the vinegar works well with fattier mince.