{"id":86791,"date":"2026-07-20T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/?p=86791"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:06:44","slug":"historical-tasting-at-muiderslot-medieval-dishes-in-muiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/historische-proeverij-muiderslot-middeleeuwse-gerechten-muiden\/","title":{"rendered":"Muiderslot Historical Tasting: Eating Like They Did in the Middle Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muiderslot offers something you won\u2019t find anywhere else in the region: dining just as the castle\u2019s residents did centuries ago. Every other week, on Saturday afternoons, the museum hosts a Historical Tasting, where you first take a walk through the castle and gardens, and then sit down to a meal featuring dishes based on forgotten recipes from the Middle Ages and the 17th century. The experience lasts 90 minutes, and you\u2019ll literally get a taste of how people used to cook back then.<\/p>\n

The Muiderslot castle chef stands at the stove and decides what will be served. That selection changes constantly: each edition revolves around its own seasonal theme. In January, the focus is on \u2018Preserving and Canning\u2019; in February, it\u2019s \u2018Love and Lust.\u2019 March brings \u2018What the farmer doesn\u2019t know\u2026,\u2019 and April is all about \u2018Fish Must Swim.\u2019 May\u2019s theme is perhaps the most unique: \u2018Rats, Coughs, and Beans,\u2019 about how the castle weathered wartime.<\/p>\n

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The guided tour before the tasting takes you past the castle\u2019s round corner towers and moat; the castle was founded by Floris V shortly after 1285 and was thoroughly restored between 1895 and 1910. If the weather is nice, you\u2019ll also stroll through the historic gardens, laid out in the 17th-century style, complete with a plum orchard. From the grounds, you can look out over the harbor of Muiden and the former Zuiderzee\u2014a view that has changed little since the castle\u2019s residents themselves gazed out upon it.<\/p>\n

A Keti Koti special will follow in June, and the summer will then be dedicated to \u2018Plum Season\u2019 for three months: July, August, and September will all revolve around the plums from our own orchard. Next comes October with \u2018Superstition,\u2019 November with \u2018Cakes and Pies,\u2019 and the year wraps up with \u2018Winter Castle\u2019 in December. Each season brings its own story and its own flavors, directly linked to what was served at the time.<\/p>\n

What sets this tasting experience apart from a regular tour is that history isn\u2019t just explained here\u2014it\u2019s also tasted. The castle chef works with forgotten recipes and old techniques, so you don\u2019t just get something historically inspired, but a reconstruction of how people actually ate back then. For those who are already familiar with Muiderslot from the guided tours, this is a different way to experience the castle: through the nose and the mouth, not just through the eyes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Rijksmuseum Muiderslot, you\u2019ll first stroll through the castle and gardens, then take a seat for a tasting menu featuring forgotten dishes. The castle chef bases everything on medieval and 17th-century dining customs, with a different seasonal theme for each edition\u2014from plums in the summer to a winter edition in December.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":86792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"district":[10736],"class_list":["post-86791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultuur","district-amsterdam-omgeving"],"acf":{"slider":[86793],"fotograaf":"Defence Line Amsterdam from Different city's, Netherlands \u00b7 Wikimedia Commons \u00b7 CC BY 2.0","editor":"","video":"","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"De kasteelkok serveert vergeten gerechten met een ander seizoensthema per editie","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"cord_A":"5.0714478","cord_B":"52.3333766","introductie_tekst":"Bij Rijksmuseum Muiderslot loop je eerst door kasteel en tuinen, daarna schuif je aan voor een proeverij vol vergeten gerechten. De kasteelkok baseert alles op middeleeuwse en 17e-eeuwse eetgewoonten, met elke editie een ander seizoensthema. Van pruimen in de zomer tot een winterse editie in december.","rubriek":"Evenement","locatie_event":null,"naam_locatie":"Historische Proeverij Muiderslot","adres":"Herengracht 1, 1398 AA Muiden","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/muiderslot.nl\/historische-proeverij\/","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86795,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86791\/revisions\/86795"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86791"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=86791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}