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Le Viandier de Taillevant, from a 15th-century edition. Le Viandier (often called Le Viandier de Taillevent, pronounced [lə vjɑ̃dje də tajvɑ̃]) is a recipe collection generally credited to Guillaume Tirel, alias Taillevent. However, the earliest version of the work was written around 1300, about 10 years before Tirel's birth.
The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking, cury from Old French queuerie, 'cookery') [2] is an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes.Although the original manuscript is lost, the text appears in nine manuscripts, the most famous in the form of a scroll with a headnote citing it as the work of "the chief Master Cooks of King Richard II".
Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus depicted dining on, among other things, a fish dish and a pretzel; illustration from Hortus deliciarum, Alsace, late 12th century.. Though various forms of dishes consisting of batter or dough cooked in fat, like crêpes, fritters and doughnuts were common in most of Europe, they were especially popular among Germans and known as krapfen (Old High German: "claw ...
An early form of quiche can be found in Forme of Cury, a 14th-century recipe collection, as a Torte de Bry with a cheese and egg yolk filling. [113] Le Ménagier de Paris ("Parisian Household Book"), written in 1393, includes a quiche recipe made with three kinds of cheese, eggs, beet greens, spinach, fennel fronds, and parsley. [114]
Le Viandier – a recipe collection generally credited to Guillaume Tirel, c 1300; The Forme of Cury – a royal collection of medieval English recipes of the 14th century, influenced by the Liber de Coquina; Apicius – a collection of Roman cookery recipes
[6] [7] [8] The latter is a 15th-century conflation with a French dish of fish and curds called figé, meaning "curdled" in Old French. [7] [6] [9] But it too came to mean a "figgy" dish, involving cooked figs, boiled in wine or otherwise. [7] A turn of the 15th century herbal has a recipe for figee:
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Recipes for eggs and cream baked in pastry containing meat, fish and fruit are referred to as Crustardes of flesh and Crustade in the 14th-century, English Cookbook, The Forme of Cury. [2] As there have been other local medieval preparations in Central Europe, from the east of France to Austria , that resemble quiche. [ 3 ]