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An uncommon title in good condition.

Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books, Edited by Thomas Austin.

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Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books, Edited by Thomas Austin.
Harleian Manuscript 279 (about 1430) and Harleian Manuscript 4016 (about
1450). With extracts from Ashmole Manuscript 1429, Laud Manuscript 553
and Douce Manuscript 55. London: Published for The Early English Text
Society by N. Trubner & Co. 1888. Bound in with two other unrelated old
English items.

Several hundred recipes, from mainly two C15th manuscripts, herewith
published for the first time in book form. First edition thus in
published form. The manuscripts are currently in the British and
Bodleian Libraries. The cookery books contain many rare and
extraordinary medieval recipes. They include an astonishing variety of
ingredients and dishes no longer "fashionable". eg. whale, porpoise,
seal, swan, crane, heron, peacock; Pudding of Swan Neck. Includes
contents of famous feasts such as the banquet of the coronation of
Henry the Fourth.

The text of many recipes in earlier English.


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