The Forme of Cury: A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 — John Shaqi
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 Almaundes blaunched, grynde hem and drawe hem up thykke, set hem
ouer the fyre & boile hem. set hem adoun and spryng [1] hem wicii
Vyneger, cast hem abrode uppon a cloth and cast uppon hem sugur. whan
it is colde gadre it togydre and leshe it in dysshes.
[1] spryng. sprinkle.
GREWEL OF ALMAUNDES. XX.IIII. VI.
Take Almaundes blaunched, bray hem with oot meel [1]. and draw hem up
with water. cast þeron Safroun & salt &c.
[1] oot meel. oat-meal.
CAWDEL OF ALMAUND MYLK. XX.IIII. VII.
Take Almaundes blaunched and drawe hem up with wyne, do þerto powdour
of gyngur and sugur and colour it with Safroun. boile it and serue it
forth.
JOWTES [1] OF ALMAUND MYLKE. XX.IIII. VIII.
Take erbes, boile hem, hewe hem and grynde hem smale. and drawe hem
up with water. set hem on the fire and seeþ the rowtes with the mylke.
and cast þeron sugur & salt. & serue it forth.
[1] Jowtes. V. ad No. 60.
FYGEY [1]. XX.IIII. IX.
Take Almaundes blanched, grynde hem and drawe hem up with water and
wyne: quarter fygur hole raisouns. cast þerto powdour gyngur and hony
clarified. seeþ it wel & salt it, and serue forth.
[1] Fygey. So named from the figs therein used. A different Recipe,
Ms. Ed. No. 3, has no figs.
POCHEE [1]. XX.IIII. X.
Take Ayrenn and breke hem in scaldyng hoot water. and whan þei bene
sode ynowh. take hem up and take zolkes of ayren and rawe mylke and
swyng hem togydre, and do þerto powdour gyngur safroun and salt, set
it ouere the fire, and lat it not boile, and take ayrenn isode & cast
þe sew onoward. & serue it forth.
[1] Pochee. Poached eggs. Very different from the present way.
BREWET OF AYRENN. XX.IIII. XI.
Take ayrenn, water and butter, and seeþ hem yfere with safroun and
gobettes of chese. wryng ayrenn thurgh a straynour. whan the water
hath soden awhile: take þenne the ayrenn and swyng hem with verious.
and cast þerto. set it ouere the fire and lat it not boile. and serue
it forth.
MACROWS [1]. XX.IIII. XII.
Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh. and kerve it on peces, and cast
hem on boillyng water & seeþ it wele. take chese and grate it and
butter cast bynethen and above as losyns. and serue forth.
[1] Macrows. _Maccherone_, according to the Recipe in _Altieri_,
corresponds nearly enough with our process; so that this title seems
to want mending, and yet I know not how to do it to satisfaction.
TOSTEE [1]. XX.IIII. XIII.
Take wyne and hony and found it [2] togyder and skym it clene. and
seeþ it long, do þerto powdour of gyngur. peper and salt, tost brede
and lay the sew þerto. kerue pecys of gyngur and flour it þerwith and
messe it forth.
[1] Tostee. So called from the toasted bread.
[2] found it. mix it.
GYNGAWDRY [1]. XX.IIII. XIIII.
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