Animals and food at Rochester Priory

Animals and food at Rochester Priory

Dr Christopher Monk explores details about animals and animal products consumed at Rochester Priory emerging from a section in Custumale Roffense concerning the monastery’s lay servants (folios 53r-60v).

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Infirmary Herbary

Infirmary Herbary

Head Gardener Graham Huckstepp explores the herbs growing in the Infirmary Herb Garden.

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Food rents c. 1235

Food rents c. 1235

Dr Christopher Monk explores the role of animals and animal products at the Priory of Saint Andrew at Rochester, for everything from manuscripts to candles and transport to food.

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The Rochester Priory flan

The Rochester Priory flan

The master miller of Rochester Priory received a food gift at Easter for his services to the community of monks there. That gift was a flan. In this video, Dr Christopher Monk recreates a medieval recipe for a sweet creamy flan: silky smooth and delicious!

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Custumale Roffense, c.1235

Custumale Roffense, c.1235

Dr Christopher Monk introduces the ‘Custumal of Rochester’, a thirteenth-century customs book from the Cathedral Priory of St Andrew full of vivid details not just of the lives of the monks but also offering valuable insight into the servants of the priory.

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