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DATING FROM 1500, “A noble bok of festes ryalle and cokery, A bok for a Prynces housholde” is the earliest copy of a printed cookbook in English, according to the British Library.
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They have reproduced and eaten some of the recipes, including “pyke and eles in balloke broth,” a dish of pike and eels spiced with cloves, cinnamon and saffron, and a mixture of milk and colored eggs called “ledlardes.”
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The book reveals that Henry V’s coronation feast featured a first course of 31 swans, roasted and probably redressed in their feathers. All carried signs praising the king.
This was followed by dishes of venison, antelope, porpoises and a range of fish, including carp, perch and lamprey, on which King Henry I is said to have gorged himself to death.
