l. 503. _Tansy Cake_ is made of grated Bread, Eggs, Cream, Nutmeg, Ginger, mixt together and Fried in a Pan with Butter, with green Wheat and Tansy stamped. R. Holme. ‘To prevent being Bug-bitten. Put a sprig or two of _tansey_ at the bed head, or as near the pillow as the smell may be agreeable.’ T. Cosnett’s Footman’s Directory, p. 292. l. 504, 511, &c. _Leach_, a kind of Jelly made of Cream, Ising-glass, Sugar, and Almonds, with other compounds (the later meaning, 1787). R. Holme. l. 517-18. _Potages._ All maner of liquyde thynges, as Potage, sewe and all other brothes doth replete a man that eteth them with ventosyte. _Potage is not so moche vsed in all Chrystendome as it is vsed in Englande._ Potage is made of the licour in the whiche flesshe is sod in, with puttynge to, chopped herbes, and Otmell and salte. A. Borde, _Reg._ fol. H. ii. l. 517, 731. _Jelly_, a kind of oily or fat liquor drawn from Calves or Neats feet boiled. R. Holme. l. 519. _Grewel_ is a kind of Broth made only of Water, Grotes brused and Currans; some add Mace, sweet Herbs, Butter and Eggs and Sugar: some call it Pottage Gruel. R. Holme. l. 521. _Cabages._ ’Tis scarce a hundred years since we first had cabbages out of Holland; Sir Anthony Ashley, of Wiburg St Giles, in Dorsetshire, being, as I am told, the first who planted them in England. Jn. Evelyn, Acetaria, § 11. They were introduced into Scotland by the soldiers of Cromwell’s army. 1854. Notes and Queries, May 6, p. 424, col. 1. l. 533. _Powdered_ is contrasted with _fresh_ in Household Ordinances: ‘In beef daily or moton, fresh, or elles all _poudred_ is more availe, 5d.’ _H. Ord._ p. 46. In Muffett (p. 173) it means pickled, ‘As Porpesses must be baked while they are new, so Tunny is never good till it have been long _pouldred_ with salt, vinegar, coriander, and hot spices.’ In p. 154 it may be either salt or pickled; ‘Horne-beaks are ever lean (as some think) because they are ever fighting; yet are they good and tender, whether they be eaten fresh or _poudred_.’ _Powdered_, says Nicolas, meant sprinkled over, and “powdered beef” i.e. beef sprinkled with salt, is still in use. _Privy Purse expenses of Elizabeth of Yorke, &c._, p. 254, col. 1. See note to l. 378, 689, here. l. 535-688. _Chaudoun._ MS. Harl. 1735, fol. 18, gives this Recipe. ‘¶ Chaudo{n} sauz of swannes. ¶ Tak y^e issu of y^e swannes, & wasch{e} hem wel, skoure y^e guttys w{i}t{h} salt, sethz al to-gidre. Tak of y^e fleysch{e}; hewe it smal, & y^e guttys w{i}t{h} alle. Tak bred, gynger{e} & galingale, Canel, grynd it & tempre it vp w{i}t{h} bred; colo{u}r it w{i}t{h} blood or{e} w{i}t{h} bre{n}t bred, seson it vp w{i}t{h} a lytyl vinegre; welle it al to-gyder{e}.’ And see the Chaudou{n} potage of Pygys, fol. 19, or p. 37. l. 540. Crane, the Common, _Crus cinerea_, Y. ii. 530. l. 540. Egret, or Great White Heron, _Ardea alba_ Y. ii. 549. (Buff-coloured, Buff-backed, and Little Egret, are the varieties.)