The
British Library recently discovered a Fourteenth Century English
cookbook written by Geoffrey Fule, a royal cook. Fule included a recipe
for unicorn meat.
The recipe calls for the
beast to be marinaded in cloves and garlic, and then roasted on a
griddle. The cookbook's compiler, doubtless Geoffrey Fule himself, added
pictures in its margins, depicting the unicorn being prepared and then
served. Sarah J Biggs, a British Library expert on medieval decoration,
commented that "the images are extraordinary, almost exactly as we'd
expect them to be, if not better".
At the link, you can see additional illustrations of the unicorn preparation process.
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