The Forme of Cury

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Ever wondered what would be on the menu in medieval England? Take a look with Kristin at one of the oldest English cookbooks, The Forme of Cury, and see what Richard II was having for dinner in this week’s episode of Footnoting History!  

​Podcaster: Kristin

Further Reading

Paul A. Acker, “The Middle English Cooking Recipes in New York Public Library Whitney Ms 1.” Journal of the Early Book Society 14 (2011): 217-31.

Cocatrice and Lampray Hay: Late Fifteenth-Century Recipes from the Corpus Christi College Oxford. Edited by Constance B. Hieatt. Prospect Books, (2012).

The Culinary Recipes of Medieval England: An Epitome of Recipes from Extant Medieval English Culinary Manuscripts. Translated by Constance B. Hieatt. Prospect Books, (2013).

Curye on Inglysch: English Culinary Manuscripts of the Fourteenth Century (Including the Forme of Cury). Edited by Constance B. Hieatt and Sharon Butler. Oxford University Press, (1985).

Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination, Yale University Press, (2008)
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Images

Haddon Hall Kitchen, A reconstruction of a medieval kitchen. Haddon Hall is a manor house mentioned in the Doomesday Book (1086) and is the traditional seat of the Dukesof Rutland. (Photo by Billy Wilson)
 
MSS of the Forme of Cury: part of the Rylands Medieval Collection – MS 7 (previously Crawford MS 18). 

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)

Haddon Hall Kitchen, A reconstruction of a medieval kitchen. Haddon Hall is a manor house mentioned in the Doomesday Book (1086) and is the traditional seat of the Dukes of Rutland. (Photo by Billy Wilson)