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The oldest surviving Arabic cookbook 🍪🍳 what’s the oldest surviving cookbook in your language?

the oldest surviving Arabic cookbooks are

1/ a book by Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq from the 900s . It is a comprehensive collection of over 600 recipes, with some of the included recipes potentially dating back to the 8th and 9th centuries and

2/ another book by al-Baghdādi from the 1200s with About 160 recipes.

I couldn’t find English translation for the first, but I did for the latter.

Here’s the English translation of its introduction:



If you are curious about the kind of recipes in it , you can find free English versions on the internet.



What’s the oldest surviving cookbook in your language?
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MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
sweden was formed like 1100 AD, so probably that old max