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Mawmenee
Mawmenee is a traditional Medieval recipe for a highly-spiced stew of chicken made with red wine. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Medieval version of: Mawmenee.
prep time
20 minutes
cook time
70 minutes
Total Time:
90 minutes
Serves:
4
Rating: 
Tags : Chicken RecipesFowl RecipesBritish RecipesEnglish Recipes
Original Recipe
Mawmenee
(from A Forme of Cury)
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Modern Redaction
Ingredients:
500ml red wine (a full-bodied red such as a Rhône)
150ml port
400g white sugar
300g stoned dates
70g pine nuts
2 tsp ground
cinnamon
¼ tsp ground
mace
½ tsp ground
cloves
½ tsp ground
ginger
pinch of salt
4 chicken breasts (or equivalent amount of leftover roast chicken)
Method:
The original recipe calls for a Greek wine. Some of the best tend to be very full-bodied and have a high alcohol content. If you can't find one of these use a mix of port and red wine, as above.
Mix together the wine, port, sugar and 1 tsp of cinnamon in a large casserole pot and bring to a simmer. Keep heating gently until the volume has reduced by about a third. While simmering the stock cook the chicken (this can be done by roasting in an oven or by frying). If frying, remove the chicken when done, add a knob of butter to the frying pan and sauté the dates until they soften. Remove the dates (along with the frying butter) and lightly toast the pine nuts in the same pan until they begin to colour. Combine the pine nuts and the dates along with the remaining spices and add this to the wine mixture.
Continue cooking for a further 25 minutes or so, then shred the chicken into bite-sized pieces and add this to the wine mixture. Allow to warm for five minutes to heat the chicken then serve.
Find more Medieval recipes as well as more recipes from the Forme of Cury here.
