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To sum up: not a single printed copy of the first cookbook printed in the Polish language has survived, but thanks to old print shop inventories, three surviving sheets and one complete manuscript copy, we do know that it existed. We also know that it was first published around 1536 in Cracow, that its title was either ''Kuchmistrzostwo'' (''Cooking Mastery'') or ''Kucharstwo'' (''Cookery'') and that it was a translation of the Czech ''Kuchařství'', which had been published a year earlier and which was itself a translation of the German ''Küchenmeisterei''.
And this, in turn, means the that ''Compendium Ferculorum'' is not the earliest cookbook to be printed in the Polishlanguage. But it’s still correct to say that it’s the oldest ''surviving'' printed Polish cookbook. It’s And it’s also the first printed cookbook that was written ''originally'' in Polishrather than translated from another language.
== Let’s Cook! ==
