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] blank maunger. Very different from that we make now. V. 36.
[2] fyre fort. strong fire.
[3] ssithen. then.
[4] drawe. make.
[5] chargeaunt. stiff. So below, _ynowhz & chargeaunt_. V.193, 194. V.
Gloss.
[6] mung it fynelich' wel. stir it very well.
[7] sit not. adheres not, and thereby burns not. Used now in the
North.
FOR TO MAKE BLANK DESNE [1]. XX.IX. XIII.
Take Brawn of Hennes or of Capouns ysoden withoute þe skyn. & hewe
hem as smale as þou may. & grinde hem in a morter. after take gode
mylke of Almandes & put þe brawn þerin. & stere it wel togyder & do
hem to seeþ. & take flour of Rys & amydoun & alay it. so þat it be
chargeant. & do þerto sugur a gode party. & a party of white grece.
and when it is put in disshes strewe uppon it blaunche powdour, and
þenne put in blank desire and mawmenye [2] in disshes togider. And
serue forth.
[1] blank _Desne_. _Desire_, Contents; rectè. V. Gloss. The Recipe in
MS. Ed. 29 is much the same with this.
[2] Mawmenye. See No. 194.
FOR TO MAKE MAWMENNY [1]. XX.IX. XIIII.
Take þe chese and of Flessh of Capouns or of Hennes. & hakke smale in
a morter. take mylke of Almandes with þe broth of freissh Beef, oþer
freissh flessh. & put the flessh in þe mylke oþer in the broth and set
hem to þe frye [2]. & alye hem up with flour of Ryse. or gastbon [3].
or amydoun. as chargeant as with blanke desire. & with zolkes of ayren and
safroun for to make it zelow. and when it is dressit in disshes with
blank desire styk above clowes de gilofre. & strewe Powdour of
galyngale above. and serue it forth.
[1] Mawmenny. _Mawmoune_, Contents. _Maumene_ MS. Ed. 29. 30. vide No.
193. See Preface for a _fac-simile_ of this Recipe.
[2] þe frye. an fyre?
[3] gastbon. Qu.
THE PETY PERUAUNT [1]. XX.IX. XV. Take male Marow [2]. hole parade
[3] and kerue it rawe. powdour of Gynger. zolkes of Ayrenn, dates
mynced. raisouns of coraunce. salt a lytel. & loke þat þou make þy
past with zolkes of Ayren. & þat no water come þerto. and forme þy
coffyn. and make up þy past.
[1] pety peruaunt. a paste; therefore, perhaps, _paty_; but qu. the
latter word.
[2] male Marow. Qu.
[3] parade. Qu.
PAYN PUFF [1]. XX.IX. XVI. Eodem modo fait payn puff. but make it
more tendre þe past. and loke þe past be rounde of þe payn puf as a
coffyn & a pye.
[1] Payn puff. Contents has, _And the pete puant_.
[1]XPLICIT.
[1] A blank was left in the original for a large _E_.
THE FOLLOWING MEMORANDUM AT THE END OF THE ROLL.
"Antiquum hoc monumentum oblatum et missum est majestati vestræ
vicesimo septimo die mensis Julij, anno regno vestri fælicissimi
vicesimo viij ab humilimo vestro subdito, vestræque, majestati
fidelissimo
EDWARD STAFFORD, Hæres domus subversæ Buckinghamiens."
N.B. He was Lord Stafford and called Edward.
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