Medieval banquets. Not just sucking pig with an apple in its mouth.

Via Ilyanna Kreske.

Originally shared by Karen Price

“This manuscript is not just a description of meals enjoyed, it is an instructional text: a series of recipes, 196 in total, put together in a parchment scroll by King Richard’s cooks so that other cooks could learn their trade. Some of the recipes are for everyday use (‘common meats for the household as they should be made, craftily and wholesomely’) and some are for feasts. All are fascinating for the glimpses they give us of the incredible range of ingredients available to medieval cooks in wealthy households, the customs surrounding eating and the links drawn between food and other important contemporary disciplines – the introduction says that the work was given ‘the approval and consent of the masters of medicine and of philosophy’ who served at Richard’s court.”

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