The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390Pegge, Samuel
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The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
Pegge, Samuel
Cooking, English -- Early works to 1800
[117] Thorne, Chron. inter X Script. Col. 2010. or Lel. Collect. VI.
p. 34. Ed. 1770.
[118] Leland, Collect. VI. p. 2. See also Randle Holme, III. p. 77.
Bishop Godwin de Præsul. p. 695. Ed. Richardson; where there are some
considerable variations in the messes or services, and he and the
Roll in Leland will correct one another.
[119] Vol. IV. p. 226.
[120] See first paragraph before.
[121] Leland's Collect. VI. p. 16.
[122] Holme, Acad. of Armory, III. p. 81.
[123] It is _pissibus_ again in the title to the Second Part.
[124] No. 7. 84. here No. 17. 35. 97.
[125] In the common calendars of our missals and breviaries, the
latter saint is called _Adauctus_, but in the Kalend. Roman. of Joh.
Fronto, Paris. 1652, p. 126, he is written _Audactus_, as here; and
see Martyrolog. Bedæ, p. 414.
THE
FORME OF CURY.
... fome [1] of cury [2] was compiled of the chef Maister Cokes of
kyng Richard the Secunde kyng of .nglond [3] aftir the Conquest. the
which was acounted þe [4] best and ryallest vyand [5] of alle
csten .ynges [6] and it was compiled by assent and avysement of
Maisters and [7] phisik [8] and of philosophie þat dwellid in his
court. First it techiþ a man for to make commune potages and commune
meetis for howshold as þey shold be made craftly and holsomly.
Aftirward it techiþ for to make curious potages & meetes and
sotiltees [9] for alle maner of States bothe hye and lowe. And the
techyng of the forme of making of potages & of meetes bothe of flessh
and of fissh. buth [10] y sette here by noumbre and by ordre. sso þis
little table here sewyng [11] wole teche a man with oute taryyng: to
fynde what meete þat hym lust for to have.
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