Today's Claire Chats is about "The Forme of Cury" manuscript and primary sources for medieval and Tudor cookery and food. I'm posting it early as I'm busy on Thursday and Friday.
Here is the link to the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts page on MS 5016 - http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_5016.
and here is the cookery programme I mention in the video:
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You can find lots of links to other Tudor cook books and recipes on our Tudor Cooking and Food Primary Sources page.
Sources
- British Library blog post "Forme of Cury: A Medieval English Cookbook" - http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2016/12/forme-of-cury-a-medieval-english-cookbook.html
- The Forme of cury - Pygg in sawse sawge - http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/texts/cook/medieval/pygghome/pygg.html
- Ashley's frumenty recipe - https://www.ft.com/content/f983f7e2-57ca-11e3-86d1-00144feabdc0.
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