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A 14th-century recipe book compiled by King Richard II’s master cooks is to put online.

 
 


Posted by Drew458    United Kingdom   on 09/23/2008 at 05:08 AM   
 
  1. Thank you Peiper, I too am a lover of things historic, as well as tasty, and this, made my day.
    Bill

    Posted by Doctor DETH    United States   09/23/2008  at  06:33 AM  

  2. Very cool indeed.

    Posted by GrumpyOldFart    United States   09/23/2008  at  07:06 AM  

  3. I love books - will go look. One of my first memories of appreciating old books (in a teenage sort of way) was laughing & teasing my mom on one of her cookbooks from the 1920s that said ‘take the meat off the fire’! We have quite a library of our own - my mil (bless her heart) calls it a ‘fire hazard’ - but then she has a subscription to the National Enquirer - which shows her interest and level of reading. Our visits of late have been tense to say the least, however she surprized me as she is not voting Obama. . .I guess even old dogs can learn new tricks. Or is that better late than never?!?

    Posted by wardmama4    United States   09/23/2008  at  07:33 AM  

  4. That is cool.... I’ll be taking a look later.
    I started a project to convert all my old computer magazines into digital form… I used to have about 10 or 12 of those plastic milk crates full. Now it’s boiled down to three DVDs - much easier to move and muck less a fire hazard. wink It was handy to have a scanner with a document feeder, and to not be concerned about destroying the originals in the process. wink

    Posted by JimS    United States   09/23/2008  at  10:05 AM  

  5. That looks absolutely awesome! I may just have to try some of those recipes!

    Posted by cmblake6    United States   09/23/2008  at  12:52 PM  

  6. PLEASE tell me I’m not the only one here who thinks WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! and gets all kinds of XCITED over ancient stuff like this.

    Consider yourself told, Peiper.

    I started a project to convert all my old computer magazines into digital form

    I’ve done much the same thing. Except they aren’t computer magazines. They are my father’s Amazing Stories collection from the 1920s through the 1950s. I thought this would be a quick and easy project. No! I started it shortly after he died four years ago. It’s difficult to scan these old pulp magazines. I’m afraid to handle most of them at all because they are now so yellowed and brittle. But it has to be done to preserve them.

    Posted by Christopher    United States   09/23/2008  at  07:38 PM  

  7. I’ve done much the same thing. Except they aren’t computer magazines. They are my father’s Amazing Stories collection from the 1920s through the 1950s.

    Wow… now that’s something really worth scanning! I can see where that would be a lot more work than my project… those are worth money as collectibles, so you’re not going to destroy them in the process. Mine weren’t, so I just sliced the spines off & fed the pages through the scanner. I did a bunch of other stuff I still had around, like Model Rocketry from back in the 70’s, old fanzines, and electronics magazines. Fortunately, a lot of magazines are making CDs available now.

    Posted by JimS    United States   09/24/2008  at  11:12 AM  

  8. I can see where that would be a lot more work than my project… those are worth money as collectibles, so you’re not going to destroy them in the process.

    Indeed I’m not. I’m using the HP scanjet 4670, which you can see in action on this guy’s blog.

    But still, they are fragile.

    Posted by Christopher    United States   09/24/2008  at  04:58 PM  

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