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
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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 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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    r iu ] As to the Romans; they would of courfe borrow much of their culinary arts from the Greeks, though the Cook with them, we are told, was one of the lowed of their flaves s. In the latter times, however, they had many authors on the fubjeft as well as the Greeks, and the pra&itioners were men of feme fcience h, but, unhappily for us, their compofitions are all loft except that which goes under the name of Apicius ; concerning which work and its author, the prevailing opinion now feems to be, that it was written about the time of Heliogabalus ', by one Callus, (whether Aurelianus is not fo certain) and that Apicius is only the title of it k. However, the compilation, though not in any great repute, has been feveral times publiftied by learned men. The Aborigines of Britain, to come nearer home, could have no great expertnefs in Cookery, as they had no oil, and we hear nothing of their butter. They ufed only fheep and oxen, eating neither hares, though fo greatly efteemed at Rome, nor hens, nor geefe, from a notion of fuperftition. Nor did they eat fiPn. There was little corn in the interior part of the / £ Priv. Life of the Romans, p. 171. Lifter’s Prcef. p. iii. but fee Ter. An. i. 1. Cafaub. ad Jul. Capitolin. cap. 5. h Cafaub. ad Capitolin. 1. c. 1 Lifter’s Prxf. p. ii. vi. xii. k Fabric. P*ibl. Lat. tom. II. p. 794. Hence Dr. Bentley ad Hor. ii. ferm. 8, 29. files it Pfcudapidus. Vide Lifterum, p. iv.