In 2012, a medieval cookbook was discovered at the British Library. The book is ascribed to Geoffrey Fule of England and dated to the mid-14th century. The images are delicious (click to enlarge).
But here’s the tricky part: How does one capture a unicorn in the first place?
Fortunately, about a century after Fule’s cookbook, Leonardo da Vinci wrote helpfully of using virgins to entrap unicorns:
“The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.”
So:
1. Find a virgin.
2. Use her to catch a unicorn.
3. Cook to taste (Fule’s recipe recommends a clove-and-garlic marinade).
4. Serve to your friends.
It’s as simple as that.
Good to know. Though I think I’d prefer a bay leaf and sage marinade.
The neck of the unicorn can be marinaded into a rare pastrami.
Copy re pastrami. BTW a temporary delay: checked my sports’ shop and they say they don’t sell virgins. Gave me attitude.
I’ve seen the Unicorn Tapestries and those Medieval hunters had the same problem. They couldn’t find a virgin, so they used a “lady in red” instead. Fortunately for them, Unicorns can’t distinguish phony virgins from the real thing. They got their Unicorn.
I’m gonna try that.
This won’t work.
It’s not just any old virgin: it clearly states Damsel. Ergo children and older women won’t do, and just forget about males.
That means you need a young woman of marriageable age who is a virgin.
I think you’ll find that is a mythical creature
Interesting, TDK. From your comment I sense that you are willing to believe in unicorns but disbelieve in virgins of the appropriate age? : )
Hahaha!