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Rare cookbook to be digitised
A rare medieval cookbook is to be digitally photographed page by page and uploaded to the internet for gourmands around the globe to study, reports the Guardian.
Forme of Cury, a recipe book compiled by King Richard II's master cooks in 1390, details around 205 dishes cooked in the royal household and sheds light on a little-studied element of life in the Dark Ages. It is one of 40 literary treasures being made freely available on the internet for the first time by the University of Manchester's John Rylands University Library.
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