It is incomplete, and will, no doubt, neglect many exciting recipes, even some of my favorites, in favor of presenting a balanced sampling. I hope that reading this will encourage you to look through das buch von guter spise and experiment with the recipes. They are similiar to the English and French recipes, and different from modern German foods.
Fruit is common, whether as the main ingredient or included in a chicken or meat dish.
It is dated from between 1345 to 1354. The surviving portion of the manuscript is in the library of Munich University. There are many other surviving pre-seventeenth century German cookbooks. I am currently working on translating this. Kuchenmeysterey , originally printed around 1486, can be found as a photoreproduction.