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] Brymlent. Perhaps Midlent or High Lent. _Bryme_, in Cotgrave, is
the _midst_ of Winter. The fare is certainly lenten. A.S. [Anglo-
Saxon: bryme]. Solennis, or beginning of Lent, from A.S. [Anglo-Saxon:
brymm], ora, margo. Yet, after all, it may be a mistake for
_Prymlent_.
[2] salwar Samoun. V. ad No. 98.
[3] plaunt it above. Stick it _above_, or on the top.
[4] quarte red. quartered.
TARTES OF FLESH [1]. XX.VIII. VIII.
Take Pork ysode and grynde it smale. tarde [2] harde eyrenn isode &
ygrounde and do þerto with Chese ygronde. take gode powdour and hool
spices, sugur, safroun, and salt & do þerto. make a coffyn as to feel
sayde [3] & do þis þerinne, & plaunt it with smale briddes istyned &
counyng. & hewe hem to smale gobettes & bake it as tofore. & serue it
forth.
[1] Tartes of Flesh. So we have _Tarte Poleyn_, Lel. Coll. IV. p. 226.
i.e. of Pullen, or Poultry.
[2] tarde, r. _take_. For see No. 169.
[3] to feel sayde. perhaps, _to hold the same_.
TARTLETES. XX.VIII. IX.
Take Veel ysode and grinde it smale. take harde Eyrenn isode and
yground & do þerto with prunes hoole [1]. dates. icorue. pynes and
Raisouns coraunce. hool spices & powdour. sugur. salt, and make a
litell coffyn and do þis fars þerinne. & bake it & serue it forth.
[1] hoole, whole.
TARTES OF FYSSHE. XX.VIII. X.
Take Eelys and Samoun and smyte hem on pecys. & stewe it [1] in
almaund mylke and verious. drawe up on almaund mylk wiþ þe stewe.
Pyke out the bones clene of þe fyssh. and save þe myddell pece hoole
of þe Eelys & grinde þat ooþer fissh smale. and do þerto powdour,
sugur, & salt and grated brede. & fors þe Eelys þerwith þerer as [2]
þe bonys were medle þe ooþer dele of the fars & þe mylk togider. and
colour it with saundres. make a crust in a trape as before. and bake
it þerin and serue it forth.
[1] it. rather hem, i.e. them.
[2] þereras. where. V. No. 177.
SAMBOCADE [1]. XX.VIII. XI.
Take and make a Crust in a trape. & take a cruddes and wryng out þe
wheyze. and drawe hem þurgh a straynour and put in þe straynour
crustes. do þerto sugur the þridde part & somdel [2] whyte of Ayrenn.
& shake þerin blomes of elren [3]. & bake it up with curose [4] &
messe it forth.
[1] Sambucade. As made of the _Sambucus_, or Elder.
[2] Somdel. Some.
[3] Blom of Elren. Elder flowers.
[4] curose.
ERBOLATES [1]. XX.VIII. XII.
Take parsel, myntes [2], sauerey, & sauge, tansey, veruayn, clarry,
rewe, ditayn, fenel, southrenwode, hewe hem & grinde hem smale, medle
hem up with Ayrenn. do butter in a trape. & do þe fars þerto. & bake
it & messe it forth.
[1] Erbolat, i.e. Herbolade, a confection of herbs.
[2] myntes, mint.
NYSEBEK [1]. XX.VIII. XIII.
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