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 the Powche [2] and the Lyuour [3] of haddok, codlyng and hake [4]
and of ooþer fisshe, parboile hem, take hem and dyce hem small, take
of the self broth and wyne, a layour of brede of galyntyne with gode
powdours and salt, cast þat fysshe þerinne and boile it. & do þerto
amydoun. & colour it grene.
[1] Gyngawdry. Qu.
[2] Powche. Crop or stomach.
[3] Lyuour. Liver. V. No. 137.
[4] Hake. "Asellus alter, sive Merlucius, Aldrov." So Mr. Ray. See
Pennant, III. p. 156.
ERBOWLE [1]. XX.IIII. XV.
Take bolas and scald hem with wyne and drawe hem with [2] a straynour
do hem in a pot, clarify hony and do þerto with powdour fort. and
flour of Rys. Salt it & florish it with whyte aneys. & serue it forth.
[1] Erbowle. Perhaps from the _Belas_, or Bullace employed.
[2] with, i.e. thurgh or thorough.
RESMOLLE [1]. XX.IIII. XVI.
Take Almaundes blaunched and drawe hem up with water and alye it with
flour of Rys and do þerto powdour of gyngur sugur and salt, and loke
it be not stondyng [2], messe it and serue it forth.
[1] Resmolle. From the Rice there used; for Ms. Ed. II. No. 5. has
_Rysmoyle_, where _moyle_ seems to be Fr. _moile_, as written also in
the Roll. _Rice molens potage_. Lel. Coll. VI. p. 26.
[2] Not stondyng. Thin, diluted. V. No. 98. Not to [too] stondyng,
121.
VYAUNDE CYPRE [1]. XX.IIII. XVII.
Take oot mele and pike out the stones and grynde hem smal, and drawe
hem thurgh a straynour. take mede oþer wyne ifonded in sugur and do
þise þerinne. do þerto powdour and salt, and alay it with flour of
Rys and do þat it be stondyng. if thou wilt on flesh day; take hennes
and pork ysode & grynde hem smale and do þerto. & messe it forth.
[1] Cypre. _Cipre_, Contents here and No. 98.
VYANDE CYPRE OF SAMOUN [1]. XX.IIII. XVIII.
Take Almandes and bray hem unblaunched. take calwar [2] Samoun and
seeþ it in lewe water [3] drawe up þyn Almandes with the broth. pyke
out the bones out of the fyssh clene & grynde it small & cast þy mylk
& þat togyder & alye it with flour of Rys, do þerto powdour fort,
sugur & salt & colour it with alkenet & loke þat hit be not stondyng
and messe it forth.
[1] Samoun. Salmon.
[2] calwar. Salwar, No. 167. R. Holme says, "_Calver_ is a term used
to a Flounder when to be boiled in oil, vinegar, and spices and to be
kept in it." But in Lancashire Salmon newly taken and immediately
dressed is called _Calver Salmon_: and in Littleton _Salar_ is a
young salmon.
[3] lewe water. warm. V. Gloss.
VYANND RYAL. XX.IIII. XIX.
Take wyne greke, oþer rynysshe wyne and hony clarified þerwith. take
flour of rys powdour of Gyngur oþ of peper & canel. oþer flour of
canel. powdour of clowes, safroun. sugur cypre. mylberyes, oþer
saundres. & medle alle þise togider. boile it and salt it. and loke
þat it be stondyng.
COMPOST [1]. C.
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