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I once wrote here about [[Old Polish Cookery for Beginners|old Polish recipës]] that were both extremely easy to cook and surprisingly modern, which made them perfect for people who were only starting to get involved in historical culinary reënactment. We could see how a recipë's simplicity could also mean its durability; scrambled eggs, for example, are still prepared in much the same way as they were two hundred, four hundred or one thousand years ago.
I took the recipës from ''Compendium Ferculorum'' (''A Collection of Dishes'') by Stanisław Czerniecki, first published in 1682. And I wrote then that it was the oldest cookbook ever printed in Polish. Well, that's no longer true. Polish and Ukrainian historians have recently discovered that an even older Polish-language cookery book was published a century and a half before ''Compendium Ferculorum''. Not a single volume of that book has survived to our times, though. Some clues about its possible existence in the past had been know earlier, but there was no certainty until now, as the surviving fragments were suspected of being some 19th-century hoaxes. So let's follow the history of this new oldest Polish printed cookbook. And then, let's pick and try out a recipe from it -- one for beginners, of course.
== Cookery Bookery ==