[Sca-cooks] Liber cure cocorum
Stephanie Ross
hlaislinn at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 13 22:48:08 PST 2006
Sydney wrote:
Yes, it does. Recipes and health regimens in verse were common in the
middle ages.
I really like it; it would make the recipe easier to remember. I don't
recall having seen rhyming before in a cooking manuscript so I was curious.
Thanks!
Aislinn/AEscwynn
Et si omnes, ego non.
> For freture. With egges and floure in batere thou make, Put berme
> ther to, I undertake. Coloure hit with safrone er thou more do. Take
> powder of peper and cast ther to, Kerve appuls overtwert and cast
> therin, Frye hom in grece, no more ne mynne. [Liber cure cocorum]
>
>
> Does this whole manuscript rhyme like this? How bizarre.
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