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
Take Hennes [2] oþer Conynges [3] oþer Veel oþer oþer Flessh an hewe
hem to gobettes waische it and hit well [4]. grynde Almandes
unblaunched. and drawe hem up with þe broth cast þer inne raysons of
Corance. sugur. Powdour gyngur erbes ystewed in grees [5]. Oynouns
and Salt. If it is to to [6] thynne. alye it up with flour of ryse
oþer with oþer thyng and colour it with Safroun.
[1] Bukkenade. Vide No. 118. qu.
[2] Hennes; including, I suppose, chicken and pullets.
[3] Conynges. Coneys, Rabbits.
[4] hit well. This makes no sense, unless _hit_ signifies smite or
beat.
[5] Grees. Fat, lard, _grece_. No. 19.
[6] to to. So again, No. 124. To is _too_, v. Gloss. And _too_ is
found doubled in this manner in _Mirrour for Magistrates_, p. 277.
371, and other authors.
CONNATES [1]. XVIII.
Take Connes and pare hem. pyke out the best and do hem in a pot of
erthe. do þerto whyte grece þat he stewe þer inne. and lye hem up
with hony clarified and with rawe zolkes [2] and with a lytell
almaund mylke and do þerinne powdour fort and Safron. and loke þat it
be yleesshed [3],
[1] Connat seems to be a kind of marmalade of connes, or quinces,
from Fr. _Coing_. Chaucer, v. Coines. Written quinces No. 30.
[2] Yolkes, i. e. of Eggs.
[3] yleesshed. V. Gloss.
DREPEE [1]. XIX.
Take blanched Almandes grynde hem and temper hem up with gode broth
take Oynouns a grete quantite parboyle hem and frye hem and do þerto.
take smale bryddes [2] parboyle hem and do þerto Pellydore [3] and
salt. and a lytel grece.
[1] Drepee. Qu.
[2] bryddes. Birds. _Per metathesin; v. R. in Indice_.
[3] Pellydore. Perhaps _pellitory_. _Peletour_, 104.
Mawmenee [1]. XX.
Take a pottel of wyne greke. and ii. pounde of sugur take and
clarifye the sugur with a qantite of wyne an drawe it thurgh a
straynour in to a pot of erthe take flour of Canell [2]. and medle [3]
with sum of the wyne an cast to gydre. take pynes [4] with Dates and
frye hem a litell in grece oþer in oyle and cast hem to gydre. take
clowes [5] an flour of canel hool [6] and cast þerto. take powdour
gyngur. canel. clower, colour it with saundres a lytel yf hit be nede
cast salt þerto. and lat it seeþ; warly [7] with a slowe fyre and not
to thyk [8], take brawn [9] of Capouns yteysed [10]. oþer of
Fesauntes teysed small and cast þerto.
[1] Vide No. 194, where it is called _Mawmenny_.
[2] Flour of Canell. Powder of Cinamon.
[3] medle. Mix.
[4] pynes. A nut, or fruit. Vide Gloss.
[5] clowes. Cloves.
[6] hool. Whole. How can it be the flour, or powder, if whole? Quære,
_flower_ of cand for _mace_.
[7] warly. Warily, gently.
[8] not to thyk. So as to be too thick; or perhaps, _not to thicken_.
[9] brawn. Fleshy part. Few Capons are cut now except about Darking
in Surry; they have been excluded by the turkey, a more magnificent,
but perhaps not a better fowl.
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