Stay, Stray, Play and Feast: 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

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