Forme of Cury

Forme of Cury is the name of a collection of recipes of the cooks at the court of King Richard II of England. The manuscript was written around the year 1390 in Middle English language on parchment. It contains 205 recipes, with their number varies in different copies of the work.

The term used to date this English recipe collection comes from the British Samuel Pegge (1704-1796), print the did the work in 1780 and has since been used for various copies of the original manuscript. These together with other important medieval recipe collections, such as Le Viandier, you fait de cuisine and Ménagier de Paris, the most famous collection of recipes from the middle ages and is a key work for understanding the food culture of the Middle Ages dar. interesting thing about her is especially that it has acquired numerous recipes in a modified form from Le Viandier.

As of 2009, a facsimile of the old cook book on the internet to be available digitally. The John Rylands University Library makes so that the original global public.