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Re:Search through historical cookbooks dating back to the Mi... by dom96 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:31PM (#34821967)
There are some really amazing books in here. Like this one from 1390 written in Old English https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433078975988&vi...

Might give cooking a few of these a try

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Re:Search through historical cookbooks dating back to the Mi... by macintux on Thursday February 16, 2023 @02:51PM (#34824769)
Nitpick: that’s definitely not Old English, which is mostly incomprehensible to most readers today. That’s Middle English.

Here’s an example of Old English. https://www.omniglot.com/images/langsamples/smp_oldenglish.g...

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Re:Search through historical cookbooks dating back to the Mi... by dom96 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:38PM (#34825663)
Ahh! Thanks for the correction
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