Apple pie with rose water and mace, which is delicious but has some confounding instructions

Super smooth filling that’s lime-forward but not too tart with meringue and a graham cracker crust

No-cook ice cream with fresh peach puree and sliced peaches

Beautiful champagne-flavored gelatin with fruit. A great base recipe to try other wines or flavorings like liqueurs

Victorian boiled pudding with currants, suet, and cinnamon, served with a simple butter and brown sugar sauce

A dense and wonderfully flavorful pound cake made with nutmeg and brandy

A delicious dessert of chopped up souffle-like pancake with plum compote as Kaiser Franz Joseph I would have enjoyed it

Medieval fried pastries with a filling of figs, apples, raisins, nuts, and spices

Essentially a spiral-shaped version of globi, this simple two-ingredient batter is fried and topped with honey and poppyseeds

Date and pistachio filling wrapped in pastry, just one of many possible recreations of an ancient Mesopotamian treat

Very dry and dense sugarless ration-friendly cake made with chestnut flour, lemon, and yeast

Crispy, delicious, extremely snackable sugar cookies

Absolutely delicious tarts whose complex flavor belies the simple 3 ingredient filling of pineapple, sugar, and wine

A very different Christmas pudding made with chocolate and gelatin

Festive glacé cherries coated in several layers of hardened sugar that are not really worth the effort

Simple but delicious cranberry and apple pie filling in a wonderfully buttery crust

Delicious, lightly sweet biscuits with distinct honey flavor

A simple and tasty ancient Roman cheesecake sweetened with honey and sprinkled with poppy seeds

Surprisingly delicious yeasted cake with spices and raisins

Cookies with pieces of Baby Ruth candy bars. What’s not to like?