they tend to be quite offputting to a modern European palette [...] Venison or pork stuffed with raisins, cloves, garlic & mace, glazed with honey as an example.
Those are normal spices/combinations for today's holiday meals? The only thing missing is juniper berries (and you use nutmeg instead of mace)
the absolute default for anything gamey is juniper berries, cloves, nutmeg.
Well perhaps I've given a bad example there, but there's definitely some unusual flavour combinations going on at a medieval banquet, to a modern tongue at least.
Those are normal spices/combinations for today's holiday meals? The only thing missing is juniper berries (and you use nutmeg instead of mace)
the absolute default for anything gamey is juniper berries, cloves, nutmeg.
Well perhaps I've given a bad example there, but there's definitely some unusual flavour combinations going on at a medieval banquet, to a modern tongue at least.