Reading about roasting in Fourme of Cury

King Arthur finds a giant roasting a pig. London, British Library, Egerton 3028, f. 49r

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I was inspired by my last blog post on roasting to look more closely at those recipes in Fourme of Cury, Richard II’s treatise on cookery, that refer to roasting.

I wanted to focus especially on the words on the page, showing you how to read the handwriting of the fourteeth-century scribe of the medieval book, now located in Manchester’s John Rylands Library.

I do, of course, offer a few insights into the medieval process of preparing and cooking roast meats, so it’s not all about palaeography.

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