The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390Pegge, Samuel
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The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
Pegge, Samuel
Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800
Since the foregoing sheets were printed off, the following very curious
Rolls have happily fallen into the Editor's hand, by the favour of John
Charles Brooke, Esq. Somerset Herald. They are extracted from a MS.
belonging to the family of Nevile of Chevet, near Wakefield, com. Ebor. and
thence copied, under the direction of the Rev. Richard Kay, D.D. Prebendary
of Durham.
These Rolls are so intimately connected with our subject, as exhibiting the
dishes of which our Roll of _Cury_ teaches dressing and preparation, that
they must necessarily be deemed a proper appendix to it. They are moreover
amusing, if not useful, in another respect; _viz_. as exhibiting the
gradual prices of provisions, from the dates of our more ancient lists, and
the time when these Rolls were composed, in the reign of Henry VIII. For
the further illustration of this subject, and extract from the old
Account-Book of _Luton_, 19 _Hen_. VIII is super-added; where the prices of
things in the South, at the same period, may be seen. And whoever pleases
to go further into this matter of _prices_, may compare them with the
particulars and expence of a dinner at Stationer's-Hall, A.D. 1556. which
appeared in the St. James's Chronicle of April 22, 1780.
We cannot help thinking that, upon all accounts, the additions here
presented to our friends must needs prove exceedingly acceptable to them.
ROLLS of PROVISIONS,
With their PRICES, DISHES, &c.
Temp. H. VIII.
THE marriage of my son-in-law Gervas[1] Clifton and my daughter Mary
Nevile, the 17th day of January, in the 21st year of the reigne of our
Soveraigne Lord King Henry the VIIIth.
L s d
First, for the apparell of the said Gervys Clifton and
Mary Nevill, 21 yards of Russet Damask, every yard 8s[2], 7 14 8
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