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
[1] Caboches. Probably cabbages.
[2] corue smale. Cut small. V. _i corue_ in Gloss.
[3] powdour douce. Sweet aromatic powder. V. Pref.
RAPES [1] IN POTAGE. V.
Take rapus and make hem clene and waissh hem clene. quare hem [2].
parboile hem. take hem up. cast hem in a gode broth and seeþ hem.
mynce Oynouns and cast þerto Safroun and salt and messe it forth
with powdour douce. the wise [3] make of Pasturnakes [4] and
skyrwates. [5]
[1] Rapes, or rapus. Turneps.
[2] quare hem. Cut them in _squares_, or small pieces. V. Gloss.
[3] in the wise, _i.e._ in the same manner. _Self_ or _same_, seems
to be casually omitted. Vide No. 11 and 122.
[4] Pasturnakes, for parsnips or carrots. V. Gloss.
[5] skyrwates, for skirrits or skirwicks.
EOWTES [1] OF FLESSH. VI.
Take Borage, cool [2]. langdebef [3]. persel [4]. betes. orage [5].
auance [6]. violet [7]. saueray [8]. and fenkel [9]. and whane þey
buth sode; presse hem wel smale. cast hem in gode broth an seeþ hem.
and serue hem forth.
[1] Eowtes. _Lowtes_, No. 88, where, in the process, it is _Rowtes_.
Quære the meaning, as Roots does not apply to the matter of the
Recipe. In No. 73 it is written _owtes_.
[2] Cole, or colewort.
[3] Langdebef. Bugloss, buglossum sylvestre. These names all arise
from a similitude to an ox's tongue. V. Ms. Ed. No. 43.
[4] Persel. Parsley.
[5] orage. Orach, _Atriplex_. Miller, Gard. Dict.
[6] auance. Fortè Avens. V. Avens, in Gloss.
[7] The leaves probably, and not the flower.
[8] Savory.
[9] Fenkel. Fennil.
HEBOLACE [1]. VII.
Take Oynouns and erbes and hewe hem small and do þes to gode broth.
and aray [2] it as þou didest caboches. If þey be in fyssh day. make
[3] on the same maner [4] with water and oyle. and if it be not in
Lent alye [5] it with zolkes of Eyren [6]. and dresse it forth and
cast þer to powdour douce.
[1] Hebolace. Contents, Hebolas; for _Herbolas_, from the herbs used;
or, if the first letter be omitted (see the Contents), _Chebolas_,
from the Chibols employed.
[2] aray. Dress, set it out.
[3] make. Dress. Vide Gloss.
[4] maner. manner.
[5] alye. Mix. V. Gloss.
[6] Eyren. Eggs. V. Gloss.
GOURDES IN POTAGE. VIII.
Take young Gowrdes pare hem and kerue [1] hem on pecys. cast hem in
gode broth, and do þer to a gode pertye [2] of Oynouns mynced. take
Pork soden. grynd it and alye it þer with and wiþ zolkes of ayrenn.
do þer to safroun and salt, and messe it forth with powdour douce.
[1] kerve. Cut.
[2] partye. Party, i.e. quantity.
RYSE [1] OF FLESH. IX.
Take Ryse and waishe hem clene. and do hem in erthen pot with gode
broth and lat hem seeþ wel. afterward take Almaund mylke [2] and do
þer to. and colour it wiþ safroun an salt, an messe forth.
[1] Ryse. Rice. V. Gloss.
[2] Almand mylke. V. Gloss.
FUNGES [1]. X.
Take Funges and pare hem clere and dyce hem [2]. take leke and shred
hym small and do hym to seeþ in gode broth. colour it with safron and
do þer inne powdour fort [3].
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