Tuesday, June 23, 2009

With a Side Order of Blancmange


The always tremendous BBC News highlights how to cook a porpoise. That is to say, The Forme of Cury, compiled by master cooks to Richard II, is part of a collection of medieval texts held by the John Rylands Library, Manchester. The cookbook, compiled in about 1420, has been digitized and available for viewing. It contains hundreds of recipes.

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