Romanian culinary archiveby Constantin Negruzzi and Mihail Kogălniceanufrom 1842
New manuscript drop · Feb 2026
Reviving Romanian boyars' historic kitchen for modern storytellers.
TsockPock is being built around the original manuscript collection and its roughly 200 recipes. We want to turn that archive into interactive kitchen recipes, playful learning experiences, and small games that help people explore the culinary world behind the book.
That is why your suggestions matter early. If you have wishes about what we should build first, which recipes deserve priority, or what kind of interactive features would be most useful, please send them to us.
Archive status
- 200
- digitised recipes
- 2
- languages in parallel
- 1842
- original publication
Three ways to step inside TsockPock
Whether you cook, browse or research, each path reveals a different facet of the 1840s culinary world.
Interactive kitchen missions
Recreate 1840s cooking rituals with step-by-step stages, utensil care, and immersive audio cues.
Digitised manuscript library
Browse the bilingual archive with annotated translations, ingredient glossaries, and facsimile scans.
Research notes & context
Follow the curatorial journey uncovering Romanian culinary stories stitched between East and West.
Featured historical recipes
Each card opens a fully rendered history with bilingual notes, ingredient lists, and manuscript scans ready to study.
Supă pisată
A velvety almond soup first served in the 1840s boyar mansions of Iași.
Read the bilingual historyPui cu sos de migdale
Chicken poached then glossed with a spiced almond finish, listed as a fasting delicacy.
Read the bilingual historyCozonac domnesc
Sweet dough, saffron threads, and citrus peel captured directly from the 1842 manuscript.
Read the bilingual historyArchive index
Ready to leaf through all 200 manuscript entries?
Walk the full index arranged exactly like the original cookbook, complete with canonical slugs and locale toggles.