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 Pork, and rost it tyl the blode be tryed out & þe broth [1].
take crustes of brede and bray hem in a morter, an drawe hem thurgh a
cloth with þe broth, þenne take oynouns an leshe hem on brede an do
to the broth. þanne take pork, and leshe it clene with a dressyng
knyf and cast it into þe pot broth, & lat it boile til it be more
tendre. þanne take þat lyour þerto. þanne take a porcion of peper and
saundres & do þerto. þanne take parsel & ysope & mynce it smale & do
þerto. þanne take rede wyne oþer white grece & raysouns & do þerto. &
lat it boile a lytel.
[1] the broth. Supposed to be prepared beforehand.
VEEL IN BUKNADE [1]. C. XVIII.
Take fayr Veel and kyt it in smale pecys and boile it tendre in fyne
broth oþer in water. þanne take white brede oþer wastel [2], and
drawe þerof a white ... lyour wiþ fyne broth, and do þe lyour to the
Veel, & do safroun þerto, þanne take parsel & bray it in a morter &
the Juys [3] þerof do þerto, and þanne is þis half zelow & half grene.
þanne take a porcioun of wyne & powdour marchant & do þerto and lat
it boile wele, and do þerto a litel of [4] vynegur. & serue forth.
[1] Buknade. V. No. 17.
[2] Wastel. V. Gloss.
[3] Juys. Juice.
[4] litel of vynegur. We say, _a little vinegar_, omitting _of_. So
152, _a lytull of lard_.
SOOLES IN CYNEE [1]. C. XIX.
Take Sooles and hylde hem, seeþ hem in water, smyte hem on pecys and
take away the fynnes. take oynouns iboiled & grynde the fynnes
þerwith and brede. drawe it up with the self broth. do þerto powdour
fort, safroun & hony clarified with salt, seeþ it alle yfere. broile
the sooles & messe it in dysshes & lay the sewe above. & serue forth.
[1] Cynee. _Cyney_, Contents, both here and No. 120. 123. See before,
No. 25.
TENCHES IN CYNEE. XX.VI.
Take Tenches and smyte hem to pecys, fry hem, drawe a lyour of
Raysouns coraunce witþ wyne and water, do þerto hool raisouns &
powdour of gyngur of clowes of canel of peper do the Tenches þerto &
seeþ hem with sugur cypre & salt. & messe forth.
OYSTERS IN GRAVEY. XX.VI. I.
Schyl [1] Oysters and seeþ hem in wyne and in hare [2] own broth.
cole the broth thurgh a cloth. take almandes blaunched, grynde
hem and drawe hem up with the self broth. & alye it wiþ flour of
Rys. and do the oysters þerinne, cast in powdour of gyngur,
sugur, macys. seeþ it not to stondyng and serue forth.
[1] shell, take of the shells.
[2] hare. their. _her_. No. 123. Chaucer.
MUSKELS [1] IN BREWET. XX.VI. II.
Take muskels, pyke hem, seeþ hem with the owne broth, make a lyour of
crustes [2] & vynegur do in oynouns mynced. & cast the muskels þerto
& seeþ it. & do þerto powdour with a lytel salt & safron the samewise
make of oysters.
[1] Muskles. _muskels_ below, and the Contents. Muscles.
[2] crustes. i.e. of bread.
OYSTERS IN CYNEE. XX.VI. III.
Take Oysters parboile hem in her owne broth, make a lyour of crustes
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