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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    do Patroclus and Automedon*in the ninth Iliad. «Tes were to be wifhed indeed, that the Reader could be made acquainted with the names of our mafer-cooks, but it is not in the power of the Editor to gratify him m that; this, however, he may be affured of, that as the Art was of confequence in the reign of Richard, a prince renowned and célebrated in the Roll®, for the f{plendor ‘and elegance of his table, they muft 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 heretofore®. To fay a word of king Richard: he is faid in the proeme to have been ‘ aconted the beft and ryalleft vyand [cu- ‘riofo in eating] of all efté kynges.’ This, how- ever, mutt 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 pheafants*; or like Sept. Geta, who, according to Jul. Capitolinus*, was fo curious, fo whimfical, as to order the dithes at his dinners to confift of things which all began with the fame letters. ardanapalus b Vide the proeme. © See above. 4 , @ Univ, Hit XV. p. 352. ¢ Afopus pater linguas avium huma- € na vocales lingua cenavic; filius margaritas,’ Lifter ad Apicium, p- Vil. . ’ © Jul. Capitolinus, c. ¢. ! : } * agains