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. [Dedication signed by the editor, S. Pegge the Elder].
- Pegge, Samuel, 1704-1796.
- 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. [Dedication signed by the editor, S. Pegge the Elder]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![amongft the Patriarchs, as found in the Bible b, I fliall turn myfelf immediately, and without further preamble, to a few curfory obfervations rcfpecting the Greeks, Romans, Britons, and thofe other na- tions, Saxons, Danes, and Normans, with whom the people of this nation are more clofely connefted. The Greeks probably derived fomething of their fkill from the Eaft, (from the Lydians principally, whofe cooks are much celebrated,c) and fomething from Egypt. A few hints concerning Cookery may be collected from Homer, Ariflophanes, Ariftotle, he. but afterwards they pofleffed many authors on the fubjeft, as may be feen in Athenasus d. And as DUetetics were efteemed a branch of the ft tidy of me- dicine, as alfo they were afterwardse, fo many of thofe authors were Phyficians; and the Cook was undoubtedly a character of high reputation at Athensf. b Genefis xviii. xxvii. Though their bed repads, from the po- ll tenefs of the times, were called by the limple names of Bread, or a Morfcl of bread, yet they were not unacquainted with inodes oi drefling defh, boiling, roafting, baking; nor with fauce, or fea- foning, as fait and oil, and perhaps fome aromatic herbs. Cal- r met v. Meats and Eating, and qu. of honey and cream, ibid. c Athenaeus, lib. xii. cap. 3. d A then ae us, lib. xii. cap. 3. et Cafaubon. See alfo Lider ad Apicium, praef. p. ix. Jungerm. ad Jul. Pollucem, lib. vi. c. 10. e t ee below. ‘ Taraen uterque [Torinus et Humelbergius] hsec feripta [i. e. Apicii] ad medicinam vendicarunt.’ Lider, prtef. p. iv. viii. ix. f Athenaeus, p. 519. 660. As 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28756332_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
