Liber Cure Cocorum is an English cookbook dating from around the year 1430 and originating from County of Lancashire. Unusually for a cookbook, the recipes are written in rhyming verse.
Text It was first printed from a transcript made by Richard Morris in 1862 from a text in the Sloane Manuscript Collection (No.1986, British Museum, now British Library), found as an appendix to the "Boke of Curtasye". It is written in a Northern English dialect of the 15th century, probably not much earlier than the time of Henry VI. The author titles his work "The Slyghtes of Cure", or, in modern English, "The Art of Cookery".
Content The poem treats a great variety of dishes under the headings of potages, broths, roasted meats, baked meats, sauces and 'petecure', including the earliest references to several dishes, including haggis and humble pie.
Sample recipe
References
External links Liber Cure Cocorum Online Text, with modern translation, Published for the Philological Society by A. Asher & Co., Berlin 1862 Online text --- By Morris, Richard, ed., 1833-1894; Philological Society (Great Britain) Published 1862 Liber Cure Cocorum PDF - By Morris, Richard, revised edition