[HN Gopher] The Forme of Cury
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       The Forme of Cury
        
       Author : drdee
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2023-04-16 01:21 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | 2mol wrote:
       | If you're into historical recipes, I can't recommend the "Tasting
       | History" channel on youtube enough. It intersperses replicating
       | the recipes with a whole load of historical context and nuance.
       | "The Forme of Cury" has made some appearances on it as well.
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       | https://www.youtube.com/@TastingHistory
        
         | jpm_sd wrote:
         | Also highly recommended - the British Food History Podcast (and
         | companion blog), with the aptly named Dr. Neil Buttery. Here's
         | the episode about Forme of Cury.
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         | https://britishfoodhistory.com/tag/forme-of-cury/
        
       | rwmj wrote:
       | "curry" meaning "cooking" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curry
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       | There is a (disputed) story that curry was used as a dismissive
       | way to refer to Indian food ("just cooking"), which then became
       | used to refer to Indian food.
        
         | Brian_K_White wrote:
         | Could this be where "to curry favor" comes from? Where curry,
         | in it's "to cook" form basically means "to make"? So like "to
         | cook up some favor" as "to generate favor"
        
           | karatinversion wrote:
           | Wiktionary has a different etymology:
           | https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/curry_favor#English
        
         | tptacek wrote:
         | Curry used in the sense you're using it is derived from the
         | Tamil word for "sauce".
        
         | 64operator wrote:
         | It's just a contraction of cookery, much like Wooster is a
         | contraction of Worcestshire. Just throw out the unneeded,
         | middle syllables.
        
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