Liber Cure Cocorum is an English cookbook dating from around the year 1430 and originating from County of Lancashire.[1] Unusually for a cookbook, the recipes are written in rhyming verse.
It was first printed from a transcript made by Richard Morris in 1862 from a text in the Sloane Manuscript Collection (No.1986, British Museum, now British Library),[2] found as an appendix to the "Boke of Curtasye". It is written in a Northern English dialect of the 15th century, probably not much earlier than the time of Henry VI.[3] The author titles his work "The Slyghtes of Cure", or, in modern English, "The Art of Cookery".
The poem treats a great variety of dishes under the headings of potages, broths, roasted meats, baked meats, sauces and 'petecure', including the earliest references to several dishes, including haggis and humble pie.