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
anoþer manere. do fars as to frytours blanched. and colour it with
grene. put þis to þe ovene & bake it wel. & serue it forth with ew
ardaunt [10].
[1] Chastelets. Litlle castles, as is evident from the
kernelling and the battlements mentioned. _Castles of jelly
templewise made._ Lel. Coll. IV. p. 227.
[2] lynger. longer.
[3] gretust. greatest.
[4] þee, i. e. thou.
[5] kyrnels. Battlements. V. Gloss. Keyntlich, quaintly, curiously. V.
Gloss.
[6] bataiwyng. embatteling.
[7] helde. put, cast.
[8] another. As the middle one and only two more are provided for,
the two remaining were to be filled, I presume, in the same manner
alternately.
[9] holde it broun. make it brown.
[10] ew ardaunt. hot water. _Eau_, water; anciently written _eue_.
FOR TO MAKE II. [1] PECYS OF FLESSH TO FASTEN TOGYDER. XX.IX. X.
Take a pece of fressh Flesh and do it in a pot for to seeþ. or take a
pece of fressh Flessh and kerue it al to gobetes. do it in a pot to
seeþ. & take þe wose [2] of comfery & put it in þe pot to þe flessh &
it shal fasten anon, & so serue it forth.
[1] II. _Twey_, Contents.
[2] wose. Roots of comfrey are of a very glutinous nature. Quincy.
Dispens. p. 100. _Wose_ is A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: paer], _humour_,
juice. See Junius. v. _Wos_, and Mr. Strype's Life of Stow, p. VIII.
PUR FAIT YPOCRAS [1]. XX.IX. XI. Treys Unces de canett. & iii unces
de gyngeuer. spykenard de Spayn le pays dun denerer [2], garyngale
[3]. clowes, gylofre. poeurer long [4], noiez mugadez [5]. maziozame
[6] cardemonij [7] de chescun i. quart' douce [8] grayne & [9] de
paradys stour de queynel [10] de chescun dim [11] unce de toutes,
soit fait powdour &c.
[1] Pur fait Ypocras. Id est, _Pour faire Ypocras_; a whole pipe of
which was provided for archbishop Nevill's feast about A.D. 1466, So
that it was in vast request formerly.
[2] le pays d'un denerer, i.e. _le pays d'un Denier_.
[3] garyngale, i.e. _galyngale_.
[4] poeurer long, r. poiurer long, i.e. _poivre long_.
[5] mugadez, r. muscadez; but q. as the French is _muguette_. Nutmegs.
[6] maziozame, r. _marjorame_.
[7] Cardemonij, r. _Cardamones_.
[8] quartdouce, r. _d'once._. Five penny weights.
[9] &. dele.
[10] queynel. Perhaps _Canell_; but qu. as that is named before.
[11] dim. dimid.
FOR TO MAKE BLANK MAUNGER [1]. XX.IX. XII.
Put Rys in water al a nyzt and at morowe waisshe hem clene, afterward
put hem to þe fyre fort [2] þey berst & not to myche. ssithen [3]
take brawn of Capouns, or of hennes. soden & drawe [4] it smale.
after take mylke of Almandes. and put in to þe Ryys & boile it. and
whan it is yboiled put in þe brawn & alye it þerwith. þat it be wel
chargeaunt [5] and mung it fynelich' [6] wel þat it sit not [7] to þe
pot. and whan it is ynowz & chargeaunt. do þerto sugur gode part,
put þerin almandes. fryed in white grece. & dresse it forth.
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