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Cottage Cheese and Broad Bean Pie, 16th Century, England (Tarte de Favas e Requeijão, Séc. XVI, Inglaterra).

1 pastry (I used puff pastry) - 250g broad beans - 4 egg yolks - 120g cottage cheese - 4 tbsp sugar - 90g butter - 4 tsp ground cinnamon 

To make a tart of Beanes. Take beanes and boyle them tender in faire water, then take them out and breake them in a morter, and strayne them with the yolkes of foure egges, curde made of milke, then season it up with Suger and halfe a dishe of butter and a litle cinnamen, and bake it.


Bibliography: A Proper New Booke of Cookery, 1557 in http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/pnboc1575.txt 
Breverton, Terry - The Tudor Kitchen, 2017. 


1 massa (usei massa folhada) - 250g de favas - 4 gemas - 120g de queijo cottage - 4 colheres de sopa de açúcar - 90g de manteiga - 4 colheres de chá de canela em pó

Para fazer uma tarte de favas. Pegue nas favas e molhe-as com água morna, em seguida, esmague-as e misture com as gemas de quatro ovos, junte o requeijão, depois tempere com açúcar e manteiga, adicione canela e leve a assar.

Bibliografia: A Proper New Booke of Cookery, 1557 in http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/pnboc1575.txt 
Breverton, Terry - The Tudor Kitchen, 2017. 



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