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] Funges. Mushrooms.
[2] dyce hem. Cut them in squares. Vide _quare_ in Gloss.
[3] Powdour fort. Vide Preface.
BURSEN [1]. XI.
Take the whyte of Lekes. slype hem and shrede hem small. take
Noumbles [2] of swyne and boyle hem in broth and wyne. take hym up
and dresse hem and do the Leke in the broth. seeþ and do the Noumbles
þer to make a Lyour [3] of brode blode and vynegre and do þer to
Powdour fort seeþ Oynouns mynce hem and do þer to. the self wise make
of Pigges.
[1] Bursen. Qu. the etymon.
[2] Noumbles. Entrails. V. Gloss.
[3] Lyo', Lyour. A mixture. Vide _alye_ in Gloss.
CORAT [1]. XII.
Take the Noumbles of Calf. Swyne. or of Shepe. parboile hem and
skerne hem to dyce [2] cast hem in gode broth and do þer to erbes.
grynde chyballes [3]. smale y hewe. seeþ it tendre and lye it with
zolkes of eyrenn. do þer to verious [4] safroun powdour douce and
salt, and serue it forth.
[1] Corat. Qu.
[2] kerve hem to dyce. V. _quare_ in Gloss.
[3] Chyballes. Chibols, young onions. V. Gloss.
[4] verious. Verjuice.
NOUMBLES. XIII.
Take noumbles of Deer oþer [1] of oþer beest parboile hem kerf hem to
dyce. take the self broth or better. take brede and grynde with the
broth. and temper it [2] up with a gode quantite of vyneger and wyne.
take the oynouns and parboyle hem. and mynce hem smale and do þer to.
colour it with blode and do þer to powdour fort and salt and boyle it
wele and serue it fort [3].
[1] oþer. Other, i.e. or.
[2] temper it. Temper it, i. e. mix it.
[3] fort. Miswritten for _forth_. So again No. 31. 127.
ROO [1] BROTH. XIIII.
Take the lire of the Deer oþer of the Roo parboile it on smale peces.
seeþ it wel half in water and half in wyne. take brede and bray it
wiþ the self broth and drawe blode þer to and lat it seeth to gedre
with powdour fort of gynger oþer of canell [2]. and macys [3]. with a
grete porcioun of vineger with Raysouns of Coraunte [4].
[1] Roo. Roe. The Recipe in Ms. Ed. No. 53. is very different.
[2] Canell. Cinnamon.
[3] macys. Mace. V. Preface and Gloss.
[4] Raysouns of Coraunte. Currants. V. Gloss.
TREDURE [1]. XV.
Take Brede and grate it. make a lyre [2] of rawe ayrenn and do þerto
Safroun and powdour douce. and lye it up [3] with gode broth. and
make it as a Cawdel. and do þerto a lytel verious.
[1] Tredure. A Cawdle; but quære the etymon. The French _tres dure_
does not seem to answer.
[2] lyre. Mixture.
[3] lye it up. Mix it.
MONCHELET [1]. XVI.
Take Veel oþer Moton and smite it to gobettes seeþ it in gode broth.
cast þerto erbes yhewe [2] gode wyne. and a quantite of Oynouns
mynced. Powdour fort and Safroun. and alye it with ayren and verious.
but lat not seeþ after.
[1] Monchelet. _Mounchelet_, Contents.
[2] y hewe. Shred.
BUKKENADE [1]. XVII.
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