[Sca-cooks] Documentation Help

[Daniel Myers]

On Mar 4, 2005, at 10:22 AM, Wildecelery at aol.com wrote:

> So...Ardenia is working on documenting her entries for Laurel's Prize 
> and Northern Lights....
>
> Does anyone have suggestions on possible sources to prove that some 
> basic cooking tasks and/or recipes were often put to poerty or simple 
> song for ease of remembrance...I've heard it somewhere...but I'm 
> hitting a brick wall in my search.

Liber cure cocorum (ca. 1430) is a cookbook that is entirely in verse.  
I doubt if it was meant to make it easier to remember, but you never 
know.

Thomas Gloning has the text available on the web at the following URL:
	http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/lcc3.htm


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