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New Online Cookbook Lets You Eat Like 14th-Century Royalty

by Peter Mychalcewycz on September 24, 2008 at 04:10 PM

King Richard II's recipe book to go online

Have you ever wondered what royalty eats? We have. We also sometimes think about what rich people eat... We bet its really, really yummy. Sigh...

Jan Wilkinson, the director of the University of Manchester's John Rylands Library, has plans to put the cookbook created by the chefs of King Henry II online. The 14th-century book is one of 40 rare manuscripts photographed and placed online by the library -- a special high-definition camera was used to photograph the delicate relics.

'Forme of Cury' (the title of the book) was written in Middle English in 1390, and among the 200 recipes on display are blank mang (a dish consisting of meat, milk, sugar and almonds) and mortrews (a ground/spiced pork dish). Mortrews... Rolls nicely off the tongue, don't you think?

Sure, none of that sounds that incredible, but you have to remember that King Henry II was dining on these Dark Age delicacies on a massive throne, or at the very least, a seat made of gold. That instantly makes these recipes more awesome than your mother's beef stew... unless your mother is a Queen, in which case, we apologize.

Please refrain from beheading us. [From: Telegraph.co.uk]









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