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Saturday, February 1, 2020

Medieval Bread Pudding A Taste of the Past (Old and Elegant Lyon Series 9)

Medieval Bread Pudding 
A Taste of the Past  
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 9

The Medieval Festival was in full swing 
when when we visited the Old Town Lyon,

 

Where the streets and the squares of Vieux-Lyon
are turned into realistic  Middle Ages village,

 

One can walk through the medieval village, 
where you can rub shoulders with minstrels, 
watch sword duels, choreographed street fights,





.... discover ancient crafts




…and best of all  taste food  and drinks of the time, 




So when I came across 
this fifteenth-century  bakery-

 

 

... selling medieval bread pudding - 

 

…I immediately bought several slices for my family.



Not surprisingly, medieval bread pudding tasted
different from its modern creamy counterpart,


…its ancient version is scented with cinammon and,
mint, sweetened with honey, flavored with raisins
reeking with red wine and tasted like a holiday fruitcake


Also called "poor man's pudding," as it way 
for the poor French people in the past  to 
repurpose stale bread and make it palatable.



It’s a pudding we would not crave, but we were 
fortunate to taste something from the past.

Read other posts for 
Old and Elegant Lyon Series
on the links below: 

Lagrange Aparthotel, Lyon
A Modern Home in Lyon
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 1 

Vieux Lyon  
Old Lyon in Suspended Animation
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 2 

Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste 
A Medieval Cathedral 
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 3 

Funiculaires de Fourviere

Galeries Lafayette Lyon Part- Dieu
Lyon’s Center of Fashion 
Old and Elegant LyonSeries 10 

McDonald’s Galeries Lafayette 
Feel at Home at McDo 
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 11 

Beautiful Bellecour 
Heart of Lyon 
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 12   

Walibi Rhone Alps
Themepark Disappointment 
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 13

The Village Outlet 
A Lovely French Bargain Outlet 
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 14

Vegas Kitchen 
Taste of America in France 
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 15

Parc de la Tete D’or 
Peace and Quiet in the City
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 16 

Lyon Zoo 
Entrance- Free Zoo  
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 17  

Loving Lyon 
A Peaceful and Friendly City  
Old and Elegant Lyon Series 1

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