The Boke of Keruynge

(The Book of Carving)

by Wynkyn de Worde, Medieval PrinterEdited by Peter Brears, Food Historian and Consultant

The Boke of Keruynge is a handbook or manual for well-born boys in Tudor times who had to learn how to behave at court. They were often sent to court or to a great house at an early age to be instructed, as was the experience of Sir Thomas More. The book provides instruction in arranging feasts and grand dinners, rituals of table-laying, the preparation, saucing and carving of meats and fish and servant’s duties. This was the equivalent of a ‘public school education’—a boy needed to know, for example, that clergy were to be served before noble lords, and how to lace a doublet after first warming the lord’s linen underwear before a fire.

This reprint includes a facsimile of the original text from Cambridge University Library with a modern interpretation facing each page and a glossary. Preceding the facsimile is a lengthy introductory essay by Peter Brears which explains the complicated rituals involved, including the elaborate arrangements of cloths before and after the meal. The book also includes drawings and explanations, an appendix consisting of a table providing a direct means of determining the carving terms and recommended accompaniments (syrups, sprinklings and sauces) for each particular item of food, and a short summary of the life of Wynken de Worde.

ISBN-13 (Hardback) hb out of print
ISBN-13 (Paperback) 9781781798874
Price (Paperback) £24.95 / $33.00
ISBN (eBook) 9781781798881
Price (eBook) Individual £24.95 / $33.00
Institutional £24.95 / $33.00
Publication 01/05/2003
Pages 130
Size Paperback 216 x 140
Readership General Readers; Cookery Historians and Social Historians
Illustration black & white line drawings and facsimile pages

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  • isbn
    9781781798874 (Paperback)
    978178179888 (eBook)
  • original publisher
    Southover Press
  • original publisher place
    Brighton, United Kingdom
  • publisher
    Equinox Publishing Ltd.
  • publisher place
    Sheffield (U.K.)
  • series title
    Southover Press Historic Cookery and Housekeeping