Recipe: Medieval Stuffed Eggs.

What a fascinating recipe! At the site there is a modernized English version of it and also an ancient Dutch version.

A medieval recipe for stuffed eggs.: "Split nuns' (Stuffed eggs)
Have eggs and boil them very hard. Then take of the shell and peel them and cut them in half lengthwise. Then take the yolks of these eggs and grind them in a mortar. But first you add some saffron, cinnamon and ginger, sage, parsley. And if so desired, one may add pepper and apples. Then grind all the aforementioned well together and stuff the whites of the eggs from wich you took the yolks with it. Then fry the eggs in turnipfat or butter. And when [the eggs are] fried, sprinkle ground cinnamon and loafsugar mixed together on the stuffing. And when you serve these eggs, put them on the serving-dish with the open side up, that is with the stuffing up."