Janice Liedl

An excerpt from a 17th century printed cookbook, for a recipe to cook eel with a sauce. Text as above, but in 17th century spelling.

To sauce an Eel.
Take a very large eel and split it, then take out the bones and strew it with some sweet marjoram, thyme, rosemary, mace and some nutmeg. Then roll it up and tie it hard, sew it up in a cloth, and boil it in water and salt. Then make a sauce drink for it with beer, water and salt.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

We must always ask who benefits and who is harmed. These companies did not pay their mechanical turks a decent salary, why do ppl think they care about society at all?

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Charred Byzantine-Era Loaves of Bread with Greek Inscriptions Discovered in Anatolia An archaeological excavation campaign carried out at the Topraktepe site, corresponding to the ancient city of Irenopolis, has yielded a discovery of extraordinary scientific significance: five charre...

Grab some wine! Some late antique communion bread 🥖 loaves from the 7th-8th centuries with Jesus upon them have been discovered in Anatolia. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/c...

a cartoon character with red hair is sitting at a table with her hands on her chin . Alt: The Disney character Merida, a young, pale woman with mountains of curly red hair, is seated at a table in a and hall. She lifts her hands in despair before dropping her face to the table in front of her.

Today, I'm surveyed out on questions about generative AI. There was a huge federal survey and then another university level survey. And I just want to say that the emperor has no clothes but I have to do it nicely.

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

A two-page spread (40-41) from a 17th century book, The Cook's Guide by Hannah Wolley. Running headers: "Rare Receipts" and "for Cookery". To make Mutton like Venison. Make your paste coarse, and fashion it like a pie. For venison, parboil your mutton in wine and vinegar, and let it lie in the same three or four hours. Before you parboil it, thrust your knife often through that the liquor may soak through it, make it sharp with vinegar, then take it out and lard it very thick, and cast pepper on every side of it. Season it with pepper and salt, and lard in the holes, and put good store of butter into the pie and bake it. Make a vent in the middle of the pie and when it is baked, fill up the pie with melted butter, and when you serve it in stick some rosemary and bays in the vent hole, and eat it with mustard and sugar. To make a salad of Lemons. Take the thickest rinds and cut them in halves, and take out all their meat. Then boil the rinds in several waters till you can run a straw through them, then pick and scrape them clean and wash them in cold water. Then make a syrup of white wine [40 - D4v] vinegar, water and sugar, and when it is boiled and skimmed, put in your peels cut in some pretty fancies, boil them till they are clear, and so keep them. To make good Pancakes. Take a quart of fine flour, put thereto eight yolks of eggs and two whites, mix it with water and make it thin, then put in such spice as you think fit with a little salt. Then set over the fire some tried suet in a posnet, and when it is seething hot put it into the frying pan,and pour it out clean again. Then pour in some batter as thin as you can and dry it on both sides, and then put to it so much suet as will cover it, and fry it. To make Pancakes. Take fair water lukewarm, make batter therewith with grated bread and a little flour and salt, to the quantity of every pancake put one egg,then season it with spice and sugar, and fry them with butter.

Hankering for some pancakes? Some recipes from Restoration London, courtesy of Hannah Wolley's cookbook.

Note: Good pancakes require a fair bit of clarified fat for frying. The second pancake recipe uses breadcrumbs for a base. As for spices? It's always a good bet to include nutmeg!

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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This is AJ Link, known here as Łink. He's awesome. He's been permabanned for basically just making the CEO, Jay Graber, mad. This was a monumentally stupid decision that, AFAICT, may result in the collapse of Bluesky due to a loss of trust, but we'll see. The smart thing to do would be to #FreeŁink

Canadians, a worthy petition to sign!

I am lucky enough to team teach it with a colleague who has expertise in modern cultural history. I focus on antiquity to the 17th century but we're always seeking more good scholarly works that demonstrate Occult thinking's integration across societies.

I need to order this for our library. Our history of the Occult course is always popular. This title looks great for that and so much beyond.

In the foreground, a brown and white Shetland sheepdog faces the viewer expectantly, standing beside a path into a long park with an empty set of children's playground equipment, all framed by trees changing colours and shedding leaves.

An empty park is a wondrous thing in Pippin's eye.

Hey folks I'm still short. Automatic payment didn't go through and now the clock is ticking and I'm kind of freaking out? I don't currently have any outstanding work that I can invoice or new work lined up. If you can help out I would really appreciate it and so would my cats.
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Page 30 from "The cooks guide", a 17th century cookbook by Hannah Wolley, with running title "Rare Recipes". Modern spelling transcription: your milk is come which you set, break it as for a cheese, and whey it very well,then break it very fine with your hands, and when it is very small, put in your boiled bread and milk. Stir them well together, and put in a pound and half of plumped currants or more, two nutmegs grated, six eggs, yolks and whites, a little salt, almost half a pound of sugar, as much raw cream and rosewater as you think fit. Do not make them too thin with the cream, nor bake them too much. To make clotted cream the best way. Take a pail full of strokings and boil them a little, then put in a quart of sweet cream and boil them together, then pour into several pans and cover them, and when it has stood all night it will be very thick. Then take it off with a skimmer and lay it all in one dish. To make a very good Cheese. Take a pail full of strokings almost cold, and put to it one spoonful of rennet or more as you think fit; when it is come, break it a little, let it lie almost one hour, then put

NGL, seventeenth century cheese recipes read as NSFW. It's not just that cheese is the best thing ever, it is truly the technical terminology. There's a lot of "strokings" and references to when the "milk is come".

Also - contrast b/w the response when I advocate teaching R instead of SPSS -- "No hurry, let's not rush into it" (still waiting) -- & others re: use of LLMs -- "It's inevitable, we're behind; need it implement it ASAP!" -- is telling. Learning to code is freeing. Overhyped LLMs create dependency.

"and some even hope AI could simulate the responses of minorities or other groups who are often underrepresented in studies."

You fucks trained a parrot to talk words & now instead of studying trans people you're writing up the parrot's responses as research. there is no place in hell hot enough

You see a drawn world map from an early modern manuscript page that is nowadays in the St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek (VadSlg Ms. 391). The map features south at the top, and shows "africa" in the upper part, “Asia” in the lower part left, and “Europa” in the lower part right.

Here is a story about a world map of a European that lived around 1300 AD. The drawn map features south at the top, and shows "africa" in the upper part, “Asia” in the lower part left, and “Europa” in the lower part right.

A 🧵 for #skystorians

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a man in a suit and hat is standing in front of a woman in an apron . Alt: A man in a suit and hat stands in front of a frowning woman in an apron, at a griddle. She flips a pancake into his face.

This week I explored the spice profiles of 17th century English recipes. Lots of mace & nutmeg with meat dishes along with raisins, currants, & sugar. Oh, and lots of sack (fortified white wine).

Next week? Pancakes!

Update on "Who Goes Nazi"
"MAGA appeals to people who need to feel special, who need enemies to blame, who need simple answers to complex problems. It attracts those who mistake confidence for competence, who confuse being loud with being right, who think that admitting uncertainty is weakness."

Jk Rowling's reaction to Emma Watson was absolutely horrid. I personally don't think you should talk to transphobes, but Emma was willing to try and gave an olive branch to Rowling. Something that took great strength and courage. I didn't feel Rowling deserved such kindness and she proved me right.

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If administrators can dictate what professors teach in the classroom, based on their idea of what politicians want, there is *already* no "academic freedom." The violation of that boundary ended it. There is only whatever politicians haven't yet thought to denounce, and only until they denounce it.

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Notre département recrute! Professeure adjointe ou professeur adjoint et Bourse professorale Ruby Heap en histoire des femmes www.affairesuniversitaires.ca/trouver-un-e...

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

Today's writing progress? Only about 500 words, but that includes more detailed outlines to define the development of the whole section. A+ feeling!