Take a thousand eggs or more : a translation of medieval recipes from Harleian MS. 279, Harleian MS. 4016, and extracts of Ashmole MS. 1439, Laud MS. 553, and Douce MS. 55, with nearly 100 recipes adapted for modern cookery / by Cindy Renfrow.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Renfrow, Cindy.

Contributor:

• British Library.
• Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
• Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

• English
• English, Middle (1100-1500)

Subjects (All):

• Cooking, English--Early works to 1800.
• Cooking, English.
• Manuscripts, Medieval--England.
• Manuscripts, Medieval.
• Cooking, Medieval.
• England.
• Cooking, Medieval--Sources.

Genre:

• Cookbooks.

Penn Provenance:

• Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[United States] : C. Renfrow, 1990-

Notes:

• "Volume 1 contains almost 100 translated recipes which have been adapted for modern cookery. Volume 2 contains nearly 300 translated recipes that have not yet been modernized; these include recipes for extinct or protected species and for species not to be found in North America. These recipes are here both for curiosity's sake and for the sake of completeness, as they were part of the original text."--Introduction.
• Spiral bound.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
• Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
• Kislak copy volume 2 is "Second Printing - September 1991".

ISBN:

• 096285980X
• 9780962859809
• 0962859826
• 9780962859823

OCLC:

24287480