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
LII. FOR TO MAKE A BUKKENADE [1].
Tak veel and boyle it tak zolkys of eggys and mak hem thykke tak
macis and powdre of gyngyner and powder of peper and boyle yt togeder
and messe yt forth.
[1] Vide No. 45.
LIII. FOR TO MAKE A ROO BROTH [1].
Tak Parsile and Ysop and Sauge and hak yt smal boil it in wyn and in
water and a lytyl powdre of peper and messe yt forth.
[1] _Deer_ or _Roes_ are not mentioned, as in Mr. Brander's Roll, No.
14, ergo quære. It is a meager business. Can it mean _Rue-Broth_ for
penitents?
LIV. FOR TO MAK A BRUET OF SARCYNESSE.
Tak the lyre of the fresch Buf and bet it al in pecis and bred and
fry yt in fresch gres tak it up and and drye it and do yt in a vessel
wyth wyn and sugur and powdre of clowys boyle yt togedere tyl the
flesch have drong the liycoure and take the almande mylk and quibibz
macis and clowys and boyle hem togedere tak the flesch and do thereto
and messe it forth.
LV. FOR TO MAKE A GELY [1].
Tak hoggys fet other pyggys other erys other partrichys other
chiconys and do hem togedere and serh [2] hem in a pot and do hem in
flowre of canel and clowys other or grounde [3] do thereto vineger
and tak and do the broth in a clene vessel of al thys and tak the
Flesch and kerf yt in smal morselys and do yt therein tak powder of
galyngale and cast above and lat yt kels tak bronches of the lorer
tre and styk over it and kep yt al so longe as thou wilt and serve yt
forth.
[1] Jelly.
[2] seþ, i. e. _seeth_.
[3] Not clearly expressed. It means either Cinamon or Cloves, and
either in flour or ground.
LVI. FOR TO KEPE VENISON FRO RESTYNG.
Tak venisoun wan yt ys newe and cuver it hastely wyth Fern that no
wynd may come thereto and wan thou hast ycuver yt wel led yt hom and
do yt in a soler that sonne ne wynd may come thereto and dimembre it
and do yt in a clene water and lef yt ther' half a day and after do
yt up on herdeles for to drie and wan yt ys drye tak salt and do
after thy venisoun axit [1] and do yt boyle in water that yt be other
[2] so salt als water of the see and moche more and after lat the
water be cold that it be thynne and thanne do thy Venisoun in the
water and lat yt be therein thre daies and thre nyzt [3] and after
tak yt owt of the water and salt it wyth drie salt ryzt wel in a
barel and wan thy barel ys ful cuver it hastely that sunne ne wynd
come thereto.
[1] as thy venison requires. See Gloss. to Chaucer for _axe_.
[2] Dele.
[3] A plural, as in No. 57.
LVII. FOR TO DO AWAY RESTYN [1] OF VENISOUN.
Tak the Venisoun that ys rest and do yt in cold water and after mak
an hole in the herthe and lat yt be thereyn thre dayes and thre nyzt
and after tak yt up and spot yt wel wyth gret salt of peite [2] there
were the restyng ys and after lat yt hange in reyn water al nyzt or
more.
[1] Restiness. It should be rather _restyng_. See below.
[2] Pierre, or Petre.
LVIII. FOR TO MAKE POUNDORROGE [1].
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