And that was not even considering the Miami Kitchen.
This is less a bad headline and more a mismatch between the audience’s knowledge level of Jewish history and the editor’s expectations.
Then again, an Israeli readership’s average level of Jewish history knowledge is likely not the same as HN’s level of knowledge.
I'm going to go build this!
A couple of commas, after recipes and inquisition, would easily solve the ambiguity
It helps, if you are vaguely familiar with the history in question.
I did not read the article or comments yet and still do not know what this is about so it will be a surprise.
My guess: someone found, in a cache made in a kitchen in Miami, a book with Jewish recipes (food) written in an "encypted" way so that they stay secret. The recipes date back to 13th century.
It sounds like the title of a Cluedo game.
The part about dishes being too eggy when done with today's eggs is a sign of times.
I also read a bit recently about kushrut after listening on a Jewish radio in France a discussion about whether a Jew can have a coffee in a in a bar (in France). The dissecting of the various components of the act (coffee, water, milk, the kind of cup,...) was fascinating.
I assume crypto-jewish has something to do with mythical, as in cryptozoology.
The definition was already mentioned elsewhere in the comments -- crypto-Jews are (in the Inquisition context) Jews claiming to be Christians.