[Sca-cooks] Liber cure cocorum

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Dec 14, 2006, at 1:02 AM, Stephanie Ross wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it does. You can find the whole thing here:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lcc/

I'm not sure how many other recipe collections, if any, are in  
English verse; I seem to recall a version of The Babees Booke in  
verse, which deals rather peripherally with food, but isn't a recipe  
book. I also think there's an al Baghdadi variant in verse.

Adamantius




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
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