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] Vide No. 104. Qu.
FOR TO MAKE FLAUMPEYNS. C. XIII.
Take clene pork and boile it tendre. þenne hewe it small and bray it
smal in a morter. take fyges and boile hem tendre in smale ale. and
bray hem and tendre chese þerwith. þenne waisthe hem in water & þene
lyes [1] hem alle togider wit Ayrenn, þenne take powdour of pepper.
or els powdour marchannt & ayrenn and a porcioun of safroun and salt.
þenne take blank sugur. eyrenn & flour & make a past wit a roller,
þene make þerof smale pelettes [2]. & fry hem broun in clene grece &
set hem asyde. þenne make of þat ooþer deel [3] of þat past long
coffyns [4] & do þat comade [5] þerin. and close hem faire with a
countoer [6], & pynche hem smale about. þanne kyt aboue foure oþer
sex wayes, þanne take euy [7] of þat kuttyng up, & þenne colour it
wit zolkes of Ayrenn, and plannt hem thick, into the flaumpeyns above
þat þou kuttest hem & set hem in an ovene and lat hem bake eselich
[8]. and þanne serue hem forth.
[1] lyer. mix.
[2] Pelettes. _Pelotys_ Ms. Ed. No. 16. Balls, pellets, from Fr.
_pelote_.
[3] deel. deal, i.e. part, half.
[4] Coffyns. Pies without lids.
[5] comade. Qu.
[6] coutour. coverture, a lid.
[7] euy. every.
[8] eselich. easily, gently.
FOR TO MAKE NOUMBLES IN LENT. C. XIIII.
Take the blode of pykes oþer of conger and nyme [1] the paunches of
pykes. of conger and of grete code lyng [2], & boile hem tendre &
mynce hem smale & do hem in þat blode. take crustes of white brede &
strayne it thurgh a cloth. þenne take oynouns iboiled and mynced.
take peper and safroun. wyne. vynegur aysell [3] oþer alegur & do
þerto & serue forth.
[1] nyme. take. Perpetually used in Ms. Ed. from Sax. niman.
[2] code lyng. If a Codling be a _small cod_, as we now understand
it, _great codling_ seems a contradiction in terms.
[3] Aysell. Eisel, vinegar. Littleton.
FOR TO MAKE CHAWDON [1] FOR LENT. C. XV.
Take blode of gurnardes and congur & þe paunch of gurnardes and
boile hem tendre & mynce hem smale, and make a lyre of white Crustes
and oynouns ymynced, bray it in a morter & þanne boile it togyder til
it be stondyng. þenne take vynegur oþ aysell & safroun & put it þerto
and serue it forth.
[1] Chawdoun. V. Gloss.
FURMENTE WITH PORPEYS. C. XVI.
Take clene whete and bete it small in a morter and fanne out clene
the doust, þenne waisthe it clene and boile it tyl it be tendre and
broun. þanne take the secunde mylk of Almaundes & do þerto. boile hem
togidur til it be stondyng, and take þe first mylke & alye it up wiþ
a penne [1]. take up the porpays out of the Furmente & leshe hem in
a dishe with hoot water. & do safroun to þe furmente. and if the
porpays be salt. seeþ it by hym self, and serue it forth.
[1] Penne. Feather, or pin. Ms. Ed. 28.
FYLETTES IN GALYTYNE. C. XVII.
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