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].

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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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    com J , ® amongft the Patriarchs, as found in the Bible boa} fhall turn myfelf immediately, and without further preamble, to a few curfory obfervations refpecting the Greeks, Romans, Britons, and thofe other na- tions, Saxons, Danes, and Normans,: with whom the people-of this nation are more clofely connected. . » The Greeks probably derived fomething of their fill from the Eaft, (from the Lydians principally, whofe cooks are much celebrated, ‘) and fomething from Egypt. A few hints concerning Cookery may be collected from Homer, Ariftophanes, Ariftotle, &c. but afterwards they poflefled many authors on. the fubject, as may be feen in Atheneus ¢. a And as Dietetics were efteemed a branch of the ftudy of me- dicine, as alfo, they were afterwards *, fo many of thofe authors . were Phyficians ; and the Cook was undoubtedly a character of high reputation at Athens 4, ; > Genefis xviii. xxvii. Though their bef repafts, from the po- litenefs of the times, were call led by the fimple names of Bread, or a Morfil of bread, yet they were not unacquainted with modes of drefing flefh, boiling, roafting, baking; nor with fauce, or fea- : foning, as falt and oil, and perhaps fome aromatic herbs. Cal- met V. Meats and Eating. and que of bone and cream. ‘ibid. s Atheneus, lib, xii. cap. 2 @ Athenzus, lib. xii. cap. 3. et Cafaubon. See alfo Lifter ad” Apicium, pref. p.ix. Jungerm, ad jul. Pollucem, libs vi, €r0. 7 e’ See below. * 'T'amen uterque [Torinus ét Humclbergius] hae feripta [i. e. Apicii] ad médicinam vendicarunt, ‘Litter, pref p. iv. Vili. 1X. . € Athenzus, p. 519. 660.