_hyrsting-panne_, a frying-pan. Broth, also (_broth_), was much in use. [Illustration: _No. 17. A Saxon Kettle._] [Illustration: _No. 18. A Saxon Cook._] In the curious colloquy of Alfric (a dialogue made to teach the Anglo-Saxon youth the Latin names for different articles), three professions are mentioned as requisite to furnish the table: first, the salter, who stored the store-rooms (_cleafan_) and cellars (_hedderne_), and without whom they could not have butter (_butere_)--they always used salt butter--or cheese (_cyse_); next, the baker, without whose handiwork, we are told, every table would seem empty; and lastly, the cook. The work of the latter appears not at this time to have been very elaborate. “If you expel me from your society,” he says, “you will be obliged to eat your vegetables green, and your flesh-meat raw, nor can you have any fat broth.” “We care not,” is the reply, “for we can ourselves cook our provisions, and spread them on the table.” Instead of grounding his defence on the difficulties of his profession, the cook represents that in this case, instead of having anybody to wait upon them, they would be obliged to be their own servants. It may be observed, as indicating the general prevalence of boiling food, that in the above account of the cook, the Latin word _coquere_ is rendered by the Anglo-Saxon _seothan_, to boil.[4] Our words _cook_ and _kitchen_ are the Anglo-Saxon _cóc_ and _cycene_, and have no connection with the French _cuisine_. We may form some idea of the proportions in the consumption of different kinds of provisions among our Saxon forefathers, by the quantities given on certain occasions to the monasteries. Thus, according to the Saxon Chronicle, the occupier of an estate belonging to the abbey of Medeshamstede (Peterborough) in 852, was to furnish yearly sixty loads of wood for firing, twelve of coal (_græfa_), six of fagots, two tuns of pure ale, two beasts fit for slaughter, six hundred loaves, and ten measures of Welsh ale. [Illustration: _No. 19. Anglo-Saxons at Table._]