The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of ... Richard II ... and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq / Illustrated with notes, and a ... glossary. A MS. of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined. [Dedication signed by the editor, S. Pegge the Elder].

Date:
1780
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Credit: The forme of cury : a roll of ancient English cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of ... Richard II ... and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq / Illustrated with notes, and a ... glossary. A MS. of the editor, of the same age and subject, with other congruous matters, are subjoined. [Dedication signed by the editor, S. Pegge the Elder]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    {a S's CURIOUS ANTIQUARIAN READER. ITH OUT beginning ab ovo on a fubject fo light (a matter of importance, however, to many a modern Catius or Amafinius), by inveftigating the origin of the Art of Cookery, and the nature of it as practifed by the Antediluvians*; without dilating on the feveral particulars concerning it afterwards 9 If, according to Petavius and Le Clerc, the world was created in autumn, when the fruits of the earth were both plentiful and in the higheft perfcétion, the firft man had little occafion for much cu- linary knowledge: roafting or boiling the cruder productions, with modes of preferving thofe which were tetter ripened, feem to be _ all that was neceffary for him in the way of Cry. And even after he was difplaced from Paradife, I conceive, as many others do, he — was not permitted the ufe of animal food [Gen.i. 29.]; but thar — this was indulged to us, by an enlargement of our charter, after the Flood, Gen. ix. 3. But, without wading any further in the argument here, the reader is referred to Gen, ii. 8. feq. ili. 17. feq. 23. a? | b amongtft