The body of the salamander was made of a sort of meatloaf, from a period hedgehog recipe, with almonds for spines, and a tongue made of a piece of mace. Hope you enjoy these pics. Just click on the thumbnail to go to the larger clearer version.

The raw salamander	Fresh out of the oven
All dressed up	touched up with silver
at a different angle	Being served (enflamed)
The flames (lousy shot I know, but the best I could manage)

I used Le Viandier de Taillevent recipe number 195.

Take raw meat chopped as fine as possible, Digne raisins and crumbled harvest cheese, all mixed together with Fine poweder. Have some mutton rennet stomachs, scald and wash them very well (not in water so hot that they shrivel), fill them with the chopped meat and stitch them with a small wooden skewer.

I have made hedgehogs as meatballs with this recipe (minus mutton rennet stomachs) and the "digne raisins" all swelled up and popped out giving a great hedgehog appearance, which was very cool. I think I used a feta as the cheese (trying to remember, darn I really should write these things down at the time) or possibly a ricotta.

For "fine powder" I used recipe 222 for Spice powder:

"Grind ginger (4 parts), Cassia (3 1/2 parts) nutmeg (2 parts) pepper (1 1/2 parts), long pepper, cloves, grains of paradise and galingale (1 part each) (A recipe quoted by Pichon et al p26)"

My difference was that I didn't have any grains of paradise or long pepper.

I poured warmed brandy over the finished salamander and set that alight.