@ARTICLE{Bator_Magdalena_Rhyming_2017, author={Bator, Magdalena}, volume={vol. 38}, journal={LINGUISTICA SILESIANA}, pages={95-109}, howpublished={online}, year={2017}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach}, abstract={The present paper deals with a late medieval culinary collection, Liber Cure Cocorum. The collection differs from the other known culinary manuscripts of the time due to its being written in verse. Altogether the poem consists of 137 recipes and four other fragments which introduce four sections of the collection: pottages, sauces, roast foods and ‘small cookery’. Most of the instructions included in Liber Cure Cocorum are known from other medieval collections, written in prose (cf. Hieatt 2006). In the article the collection will be analysed from two perspectives. First, the struc-ture of culinary poems will be discussed in order to examine the degree of their compliance with the traditional model of the medieval recipe. Next, although the authorship of the collection is anonymous, we will try to reveal who its author was and whom he meant as the target audience. For this purpose, we will pay attention to fragments in which the author directly refers to himself and/or to the potential reader. Additionally, any details included in the particular recipe components which might expose the potential poet and/or the audience will be discussed. By looking closely at the structure of the recipes and the intended audience, we will try to an-swer the question why it was written in verse rather than in prose.}, type={Article}, title={Rhyming recipes in medieval cookbooks}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101747/PDF-MASTER/LS%2038_7%20Bator.pdf}, doi={10.24425/linsi.2017.117044}, }