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] Flaumpeyns. _Flaumpens_, Contents. V. No. 113.
[2] Points, seems the same as _Prews_, No. 176.
[3] in fars, f. _in the fars_; and yet the Fars is disposed of before;
ergo quære.
CHEWETES [1] ON FLESSHE DAY. XX.IX. V.
Take þer lire of Pork and kerue it al to pecys. and hennes þerwith
and do it in a panne and frye it & make a Coffyn as to [2] a pye
smale & do þerinne. & do þeruppon zolkes of ayrenn. harde. powdour of
gyngur and salt, couere it & fry it in grece. oþer bake it wel and
serue it forth.
[1] Chewets. V. 186.
[2] as to, as for. V. No. 177.
CHEWETES ON FYSSH DAY. XX.IX. VI.
Take Turbut. haddok. Codlyng. and hake. and seeþ it. grynde it smale.
and do þerto Dates. ygrounden. raysouns pynes. gode powdoer and salt.
make a Coffyn as tofore saide. close þis þerin. and frye it in oile.
oþer stue it in gyngur. sugur. oþer in wyne. oþer bake it. & serue
forth.
HASTLETES [1] OF FRUYT. XX.IX. VII.
Take Fyges iquarterid [2]. Raysouns hool dates and Almandes hoole.
and ryne [3] hem on a spyt and roost hem. and endore [4] hem as pomme
dorryes & serue hem forth.
[1] Hastletes. _Hasteletes_, Contents.
[2] iquarterid. iquartered.
[3] ryne. run.
[4] endore. endorse, MS. Ed. 42. II. 6. v. ad 147.
COMADORE [1]. XX.IX. VII.
Take Fyges and Raisouns. pyke hem and waisshe hem clene, skalde hem
in wyne. grynde hem right smale, cast sugur in þe self wyne. and
founde it togyder. drawe it up thurgh a straynour. & alye up þe fruyt
þerwith. take gode peerys and Apples. pare hem and take þe best,
grynde hem smale and cast þerto. set a pot on þe fuyrer [2] wiþ oyle
and cast alle þise þynges þerinne. and stere it warliche, and kepe it
wel fro brennyng. and whan it is fyned cast þerto powdours of gynger
of canel. of galyngale. hool clowes flour of canel. & macys hoole.
cast þerto pynes a litel fryed in oile & salt, and whan it is ynowz
fyned: take it up and do it in a vessel & lat it kele. and whan it is
colde: kerue out with a knyf smale pecys of þe gretnesse & of þe
length of a litel fyngur. & close it fast in gode past. & frye hen in
oile. & serue forth.
[1] Comadore. Qu.
[2] Fuyr. fire.
CHASTLETES [1], XX.IX. IX.
Take and make a foyle of gode past with a roller of a foot brode. &
lyngur[2] by cumpas. make iiii Coffyns of þe self past uppon þe
rolleres þe gretnesse of þe smale of þyn Arme. of vi ynche depnesse.
make þe gretust [3] in þe myddell. fasten þe foile in þe mouth
upwarde. & fasten þee [4] oþere foure in euery syde. kerue out
keyntlich kyrnels [5] above in þe manere of bataiwyng [6] and drye
hem harde in an Ovene. oþer in þe Sunne. In þe myddel Coffyn do a
fars of Pork with gode Pork & ayrenn rawe wiþ salt. & colour it wiþ
safroun and do in anoþer Creme of Almandes. and helde [7] it in
anoþer [8] creme of Cowe mylke with ayrenn. colour it with saundres.
anoþur manur. Fars of Fygur. of raysouns. of Apples. of Peeres. &
holde it in broun [9].
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