Web Resources and Online Recipe Books

  •  Le Viandier de Taillevent (French, 1375-1390) – http://www.telusplanet.net/public/prescotj/data/viandier/viandier1.html
  •  Ein Buch von Guter Spise (German, c.1350) – http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/BuchVonGuterSpise/buch.html
  •  Le Menagier de Paris (c. 1393, in French/English language) – http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/menagier/
  • Cariadoc’s Translation Project  (includes German, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic and Andalusian cookbooks) -http://daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/For_Translation/Translation_Project.html
  •  Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books –  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;cc=cme;rgn=main;view=text;idno=CookBk
  • Liber cure cocorum (15th Century English) –  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lcc/
  • Old cookbooks and food history (including Nordic recipes) – http://www.notaker.com/old_onli.htm
  • Libro della Cocina (14th-15th Century Italian) – http://web.archive.org/web/20091027121713/http://www.geocities.com/anahita_whitehorse/LibroDellaCocina.html
  • Rheinfrankisch  Kockbuch (German, c. 1445) –  http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/rfk.htm
  • Libro di Cucina (Italian) – http://web.archive.org/web/20091027032901/ http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/libro.html
  • Italian cookery site – http://italophiles.com/ancient_cookbooks.htm
  • Digital texts (inluding links to German books and texts on coffee, tea and chocolate) – http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/kobu.htm#eltext
  • Medieval Cookbooks – An Annotated Bibliography – http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/food_bibliography.html
  • Glossary of Medieval and Renaissance Cookery Terms – http://www.thousandeggs.com/glossary.html
  • Culinary and Brewing Documents Online – http://www.thousandeggs.com/cookbooks.html
  • Comments on Cooking from Primary Sources  -http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/cooking_from_primary_sources.html
  • Introduction to Cariadoc and Elizabeth’s Recipes – http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/recipes_introduction.html
  • Cookbook projects and works in progress –  http://www.thousandeggs.com/msproj.html
  • Du Fait de Cuisine (tranlation of the French, 1420) – http://daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Du_Fait_de_Cuisine/du_fait_de_c_contents.html
  • The Cookbook of Sabrina Welserin (German, 1553) –  http://daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html
  • Hugh Plat’s Delightes for Ladies (1609) –  http://web.archive.org/web/20040603080850/http://infotrope.net/sca/texts/delights-for-ladies/
  • Ein New Kockbuch (untranslated, c. 1580’s) – http://www.staff.uni-giessen.de/gloning/tx/rumpcast.htm
  • Good and Noble Food (Dutch, fifteenth century) – http://www.coquinaria.nl/kooktekst/Edelikespijse0.htm
  • Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboeck (untranslated, 1593)- http://web.archive.org/web/20080418072932/http://www.kookhistorie.nl/index.htm
  • Cook book (Danish, in Danish and English, 1616) – http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/cooking/1616.html
  • English translation of Ruperto de Nola’s “Libre del Coch by Lady Brighid ni Chiarain – http://www.florilegium.org/?http%3A//www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MANUSCRIPTS/Guisados1-art.html
  • 16th c. Manual de Mugeres – http://www.larsdatter.com/manual.htm

 

This site has links to many articles and digitised texts (inlcuding many of those listed above) –  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html

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