The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of King Richard II, presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward, lord Stafford, and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq. Illustrated with notes, and a copious index, or glossary. A manuscript of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined.
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of King Richard II, presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward, lord Stafford, and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq. Illustrated with notes, and a copious index, or glossary. A manuscript of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![do Patroclus and Automedon in the ninth Iliad. It were to be wifhed indeed, that the Reader could be made acquainted with the names of our matter-cooks, but it is not in the power of the Editor to gratify him in that; this, however, he may be affured of, that as the Art was of confequence in the reign of Richard, a prince renowned and celebrated in the Rollb, for the fplendor and elegance of his table, they mufi have been perfons of no inconfiderable rank : the king's firft and fecond cooks are now efquires by their office, and there is all the reafon in the world to be- lieve they were of equal dignity heretofore0. To fay a word of king Richard: he is faid in the proeme to have been ‘ aconted the bed and ryalleft vyand (]cu- * riofo in eating] of all efle kynges.’ This, how- ever, muft reft upon the teftimony of our cooks, fince it does not appear otherwife by the fuffrage of hiftory, that he was particularly remarkable for his nicenefs and delicacy in eating, like Heliogabalus, whofe favourite difhes are faid to have been the tongues of peacocks and nightingales, and the brains of parrots and pheafantsd; or like Sept. Geta, who, according to Jul. Capitolinus c, was fo curious, fo whimfical, as to order the diffies at his dinners to confift of things which all began with the fame letters. Sardanapalus Vide the proeme. c See above. d Univ. Hift. XV. p.352. ‘jEfopuspaterlinguasaviumhuma- * na vocales lingua ca;navit; Alius margaiitas.’ Lifter ad Apicium, p. vii. c Jul. Capitolinus, c. 5. again.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21529401_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
