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 flour of pandemayn and medle it with white grece ouer the fyrer
in a chawfour [2] and do the batour þerto queyntlich [3] þurgh þy
fyngours. or thurgh a skymour. and lat it a litul [4] quayle [5] a
litell so þe þer be hool þerinne. And if þer wilt colour it wiþ
alkenet yfoundyt. take hem up & cast þerinne sugur, and serue hem
forth.
[1] Cryspes. Ms. Ed. No. 26. _Cryppys_, meaning _Crisps_, Chaucer
having _crips_, by transposition, for _crisp_. In Kent _p_ is
commonly put before the _s_, as _haps_ is _hasp_, _waps_ is _wasp_. V.
Junius. V. _Happs_, and _Haspe_, and _Wasp_.
[2] chawfour. chaffing dish.
[3] quentlich'. nicely.
[4] a litul. Dele.
[5] quayle. an cool?
CRYSPELS. XX.VIII. III.
Take and make a foile of gode Past as thynne as Paper. kerue it out &
fry it in oile. oþer in þe [1] grece and þe remnaunt [2], take hony
clarified and flaunne [3] þerwith, alye hem up and serue hem forth.
[1] þe grece. Dele _the_.
[2] þe remnant, i. e. as for the remnant.
[3] flaunne. French _flau_, custard.
TARTEE. XX.VIII. IIII.
Take pork ysode. hewe it & bray it. do þerto ayrenn. Raisouns sugur
and powdour of gyngur. powdour douce. and smale briddes þeramong &
white grece. take prunes, safroun. & salt, and make a crust in a
trape & do þer Fars [1] þerin. & bake it wel & serue it forth.
[1] þer Fars, r. þe Fars.
TART IN YMBRE [1] DAY. XX.VIII. V.
Take and parboile Oynouns presse out þe water & hewe hem smale. take
brede & bray it in a morter. and temper it up with Ayren. do þerto
butter, safroun and salt. & raisouns corauns. & a litel sugur with
powdour douce. and bake it in a trape. & serue it forth.
[1] Ymbre. Ember.
TART DE BRY [1]. XX.VIII. VI.
Take a Crust ynche depe in a trape. take zolkes of Ayren rawe & chese
ruayn [2]. & medle it & þe zolkes togyder. and do þerto powdour
gyngur. sugur. safroun. and salt. do it in a trape, bake it and serue
it forth.
[1] de Bry. Qu. _Brie_, the country.
[2] Chese ruayn. Qu. of Roisen. V. ad 49.
TART DE BRYMLENT [1]. XX.VIII. VII.
Take Fyges & Raysouns. & waisshe hem in Wyne. and grinde hem smale
with apples & peres clene ypiked. take hem up and cast hem in a pot
wiþ wyne and sugur. take salwar Salmoun [2] ysode. oþer codlyng, oþer
haddok, & bray hem smal. & do þerto white powdours & hool spices. &
salt. and seeþ it. and whanne it is sode ynowz. take it up and do it
in a vessel and lat it kele. make a Coffyn an ynche depe & do þe fars
þerin. Plaunt it boue [3] with prunes and damysyns. take þe stones
out, and wiþ dates quarte rede [4] dand piked clene. and couere the
coffyn, and bake it wel, and serue it forth.
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