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The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
Digby, Kenelm
Cooking -- Early works to 1800; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665; Liquors; Wine and wine making -- Early works to 1800
_Garavanzas_, chick-peas.
_Gelt_, castrated.
_Ginet-moils_, _gennet-moil_, a kind of apple ripe before others.
_Hippocras_, _hypocras bag_, a bag used in making hippocras, a
medicinal drink consisting of spiced wines.
_Humble-pie_, a pie made of umbles or numbles (the heart, liver,
kidneys, etc.) of the deer.
_Kiver_, _kive_, _keever_, a large vessel for fermenting liquors; a
mashing tub.
_Lardons_, strips of bacon or salt pork used for larding.
_Laton_, _latton_, _latten_, a utensil made of thin brass, or mixed
metal.
_Lith_, smooth, thick.
_Lute_, to close v., to adhere.
_Magma_, grounds.
_Manchet_, roll, or small loaf of fine white bread.
_Marinate_, to salt or pickle, and then preserve in oil or vinegar.
_Medullos_, _medullose_, having the texture of pith.
_Mittoner_, Fr. _Mitonner_.
_Mother of wine_, lees.
_Must_, new wine.
_Pearmains_, a variety of apple, perhaps from _permagnus_.
_Poix-chiches_, chick-peas.
_Posnet_, _possnet_, _possenet_, a porringer.
_Pottle_, a measure of two quarts.
_Pugil_, a pinch.
_Pun_, to beat, to pound as in a mortar.
_Race_, a root.
_Ranch-sieve_, perhaps a sieve mounted on a stand, from _rance_,
_ranse_ a prop.
_Rand_, a strip or slice of meat cut from the margin of a part, or from
between two joints.
_Resty_, _reasty_, rancid.
_Rouelle_, a rolled piece [of veal].
_Rundlet_, _runlet_, a small barrel.
_Runnet_, rennet.
_Searse_, _searce_, a fine sieve.
_Souce-drink_, pickle sauce.
_Stroakings_, the last milk drawn from a cow; strippings.
_Stubble-goose_, the grayling goose.
_Tansy_, see recipe. The dish has been traced to the Jewish custom of
eating cakes with bitter herbs.
_Tourtiere_, a pie-dish.
_Tyffany_, _tyffany bag_, bag made of thin silk or gauze.
_Torcular_, a press used in making wine.
_Trivet_, a tripod.
_Walm_, a bubble in boiling; a boiling-up.
_Wardens_, winter pears.
_Wort_, an infusion of malt which after fermentation becomes beer.
INDEX OF RECEIPTS
Ale with Honey, 104
Scotch, from my Lady Holmbey, 98
Small, for the stone, 105
To make Ale drink quick, 100
and Bragot, Master Webbe's, 107
Cock, 147
Apple drink with Sugar, Honey, etc., 106
Apples, A very pleasant drink of, 100
in Gelly, 234
To stew, 201
Sweet Meat of, 238
Syrup of, 253
Bacon for Gambons, and to keep, 212
Barley Cream, The Queen's, 139
Pap, 135
Beef, To bake, 208
or Venison, To boil, 209
To stew, 150
Rump of, To stew, 163, 196, 197
Bisket, To make, 219
Bragot, Master Webbe's, 108
Bran, To make clear Gelly of, 203
Brawn, About making of, 205
Broth, Nourishing, 133
Portugal, as it was made for the Queen, 127
Spinage, 123
Stewed, 125
and Potage, 141
for sick and convalescent persons, 143
Butter and Oil to fry fish, 193
Cake, To make a, 216, 217
A very good, 220
An excellent, 219
Carraway, 219
Plumb, 218
Cakes, Excellent small, 221
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