SC - verse and vice

Philip & Susan Troy troy at asan.com
Tue Jul 11 16:28:59 PDT 2000


Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
> 
> And it came to pass on 11 Jul 00,, that Jeff Gedney wrote:
> 
> > Sir Gunthar, you are not approving of such antics are you?
> > next thing you know there'll be a period Recipe Haiku contest!
> 
> Recently, on rec.food.historic, there *was* a thread on rhyming recipes.
> The ones I saw quoted were 18th or 19th century.  I have a vague notion
> that there were some done in period...

Yeah, I saw that too. How about the approximately 60 recipes in the
15th-centuy English Liber Cure Cocorum? I'm still working on getting
scans of the 1862 edition turned into text files, but all of them are in verse.
  
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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