Education -- Early works to 1800; England -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800; Etiquette; Home economics -- Early works to 1800; Table
[Sidenotes:
_To make Ypocras._
[a] Take spices; put 6 bags on a perch, 6 pewter basins under,
ginger and cinnamon. [b] (Of the qualities of spices.) [c] Pound
each spice separately, put ’em in bladders, and hang ’em in your
bags, add a gallon of red wine to ’em, stir it well, run it
through two bags, taste it, pass it through 6 runners, and put it
in a close vessel. [d] Keep the dregs for cooking. [e] Have your
Compost clean, and your ale 5 days old, but not dead.
[f] _To lay the Cloth._
[g] Put on a _couch_, then a second cloth, the fold on the outer
edge; a third, the fold on the inner edge. [h] Cover your
cupboard, put a towel round your neck, one side lying on your left
arm; on that, 7 loaves of eating bread and 4 trencher loaves. [i]
In your left hand a saltcellar, in your right the towel. [k] Set
the saltcellar on your lord’s right, and trenchers on the left of
it. [l] Lay knives, bread, spoons, napkins, and cover ’em up.
[m] _To wrap your Lord’s bread stately._
[n] Square the loaves; take a Reynes towel 2½ yards long by the
ends; put it on the table, pinch up a handful of one end, and lay
it between 2 towels, and on it lay your 6 or 7 loaves bottom to
bottom. [o] Put salt, cups, &c., on the other tables. [p] See that
your _Ewery_ is properly supplied, and your ale-pots kept clean.
[q] _To arrange the Surnape._
Put a cloth under a double towel, hold 3 ends together, fold them
in a foot-broad pleat, and lay it smooth. [r] After washing, the
Marshal must carry the surnape out. [s] Leave out half a yard to
make estate. [t] When your lord has washed, remove the Surnape.
[v] When he is seated, salute him, uncover your bread, kneel on
your knee till 8 loaves are served out (?) [x] Provide as many
cups as dishes.]
[Headnote: SEWYNGE OF FLESSHE.]
¶ Here endeth of the Butler and Panter, yoman of the seller and ewery.
And here foloweth sewynge of flesshe.
[Fol. A 4b.] ++The [a] sewer muste sewe, & from the borde conuey all
maner of potages, metes, & sauces / & euery daye comon with the coke,
and vndersta{n}de & wyte how many dysshes shall be, and speke with the
panter and offycers of y^e spycery for fruytes that shall be ete{n}
fastynge. Than goo to the borde of sewynge, and se ye haue offycers redy
to conuey, & seruauntes for to bere, your dysshes. Also yf marshall,
squyers, and seruauntes of armes, bo[F] there, tha{n} serue forth your
souerayne withouten blame.
[Sidenote:
_ewynge of_]
¶ Seruyce.
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