A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle AgesWright, Thomas
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A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages
Wright, Thomas
England -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485
Take dates, washed clean, and currants, and boil them, and pound
them together, and in pounding put cloves to them, and mix them up
with vinegar, or clarey, or other sweet wine, and put it in a fair
pot, and boil it well; and then put to it half a quartern of sugar,
or else honey, and half an ounce of cinnamon in powder, and in the
“setting down” take a little vinegar and mix with it, and half an
ounce of ground ginger, and a little sandal-wood and saffron; and
in the boiling put minced ginger to it; next, take fresh brawn,
and seethe it, and then cut it in thin slices, and lay three in a
dish, and then take half a pound of pines, and fry them in fresh
grease, and throw the pines into it; and when they are thoroughly
hot take them out with a skimmer, and let them dry, and cast them
into the same pot; and then put the syrup above the brawn in the
dishes, and serve it.
_Mawmené_ was made according to the following receipt:--
Take almonds and blanch them and pound them, and mix them with
water or wine, and take the brawn of capons or pheasants, and pound
it small, and mix it with the other, and add ground rice, and put
it in a pot and let it boil; and add powder of ginger and cloves,
and cinnamon and sugar; and take rice, and parboil it and grind it,
and add it to them, and colour it with sandal-wood, and pour it out
in dishes; and take the grains of pomegranates and stick in it, or
almonds or pines fried in grease, and strew sugar over it.
The following was the manner of making the _crustade_, mentioned in the
third course of this bill of fare:--
Take chickens, and pigeons, and small birds, and make them clean,
and chop them to pieces, and stew them altogether in a good broth
made of fair grease and ground pepper and cloves, and add verjus to
it, and colour it with saffron; then make raised crusts, and pinch
them and lay the flesh therein, and put to it currants, and ground
ginger, and cinnamon; and take raw eggs, and break them, and strain
them through a strainer into the pottage of the stew, and stir it
well together, and pour it into the raised crusts, above the flesh,
and then place the covers on them and serve them.
The process of serving a peacock “with the skin” also requires some
explanation. The skin was first stripped off, with the feathers, tail,
and neck and head, and it was spread on a table and strewed with ground
cummin; then the peacock was taken and roasted, and “endored” with raw
yolks of eggs; and when roasted, and after it had been allowed to cool
a little, it was sewn into the skin, and thus served on the table,
always with the last course, when it looked as though the bird were
alive. To make _cokagrys_, you must
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