What makes this book very different is that the first 30 some pages, are dishes prepared from or with the addition of a type of kasha (in German "gerste") which was, shortly after this book was printed, almost entirely forced out from fashion by the advance of potato as a main staple. Fish, fowl, and meat, pork, beef, and sheep are prepared in dishes with kasha and many kasha dishes just using herbs, spices and flavorings. One dish is flavored with horseradish, another one with green herbs, while other dishes in which the kasha is prepared in broth is flavored and scented with nutmeg, cinnamon, and different types of pepper. In other dishes, onion, garlic, leaf vegetables, spinach or root vegetables such as parsnip, carrot, etc. are cooked together with the main ingredient. The style of the recipe seems to indicate that the book bound in contemporary vellum did belong to a professional. Either to a chef, or to the head of an important household. Unlike most of the contemporary handwritten cookbooks of the time, this one is written from the beginning to the end by the same hand. Its alphabetical index is in perfect order, from A to Z complete.

Handwritten well designed title page: Kochbuech: Darinen alles ordentlich nach Dem Register 1723 No owner's name. Anonymous No location of owner.