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
Galyngale. 30. the Powder, 47. the long-rooted Cyperus. Gl. to
Chaucer. See Northumberland Book, P. 415.
Gleyre. of Ayrenn. 59. the white, from Fr. glaire. Chaucer. _Lear_ or
_Leir_ of an Egg. Holme interprets it _the White beaten into a foam_.
Goon. 59. MS. Ed. 1. go. Belg. _gaen_.
Gylofre. 65. Gelofre. MS. Ed. 27. cloves; for see No. 30, 31. 40.
there; from Gr. [Greek: charuophullon].
Gyngawdry. 94. a dish.
Grave. MS. Ed. II. 20. Gravey.
Gele. 101, 102. Jelly. Fr. Gelée.
Gawdy Grene. 112. perhaps, Light Green.
Gurnards. 115.
Greynes de Parys. 137. and so Chaucer, meaning _Greynes de paradys_,
or greater Cardamoms. See Dr. Percy on Northumb. Book, p. 414.
Chaucer has _Greines_ for _Grains_. and Belg. Greyn.
Grate. 152. v. i or y grated.
Gastbon. 194. f. _Gastbon_, quasi _Wastbon_, from _Wastel_ the finest
Bread, which see. Hence the Fr. Gasteau.
Gyngynyr, Gyngenyr, Gyngyner, Gyngener. MS. Ed. 3, 4. 13. 24. Ginger.
Gyngyner-bred, 32.
Grotys. MS. Ed. II. Oat-meal Grotes, i.e. Grits.
Grydern, Grydern, Gredern. MS. Ed. 25. 44. II. 11.
H.
H. for _th_, as hem, them; her, their; passim. _Hare_, 121. Chaucer.
Wiclif. It is sometimes omitted; as _wyt_ and _wyte_, white.
Sometimes abounds, as schaldyd. MS. Ed. 7. II. scalded. v. _Thowehe_.
Hye. Proem. high. _hy_, MS. Ed. 44. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: Heah].
Hem. 1, 2. i.e. hem; them. Lye in Junii Etym.
Hulle. 1. a verb, to take off the husk or skin. Littleton. Hence
Hulkes, Husks or _Hulls_, as 71. _Holys_, MS. Ed. 1. Sax. helan, to
cover. v. Lye in Junii Etym. v. Hull.
Hulkes. v. Hulle.
Hewe. 7. cut, mince. _yhewe_, 12. minced, hewn. MS. Ed. 6. 9. _hewin_,
Chaucer. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: heþyan].
Hakke. 194. MS. Ed. 23. hack, bruise. Junii Etym. v. hack. MS. Ed.
has also _hak_ and _hac_.
Hebolace. 7. name of a dish.
Herdeles. MS. Ed. 56. Hurdles.
Hennes. 17. 45. including, I presume, the whole species, as _Malard_
and _Pekok_ do below.
Hool. 20. 22. alibi. _hole_, 33. 175. _hoole_, 158. whole. Chaucer
has hole, hool, and hoolich; and Wiclif, _hole_ and _hool_. MS. Ed.
has _hol_ and _hole_.
Hooles. 162. Holes.
Holsomly. Proem, wholesomely.
Herthe. MS. Ed. 57. Earth.
Hit. 20. 98. 152. it. hytt. Northumb. Book, p. 440. _Hit_, Gloss.
Wiclif. in Marg. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: hit].
Hoot. 21. alibi. hot.
Hares. 23.
Hoggepot. 31. v. ad loc.
Hochee. 34. hachè, Fr. but there is nothing to intimate cutting them
to pieces.
Hersyve. MS. Ed. II. 2. Hair-sieve. _her_ is _hair_ in Chaucer.
Helde. 50. 154. throw, cast, put. v. 189. _Heelde_, poured, shed.
Wiclif. and Lye in Junii Etym. v. Held.
Holde. 189. make, keep. MS. Ed. II. 32, 33.
Hawtheen. 57. Hawthorn. Junius, v. Haw.
Hatte. 59. bubling, wallop. quasi _the hot_, as in Chaucer. from
A.Sax. [Anglo-Saxon: hatt].
Hong. 67. hing, or hang. Chaucer. MS. Ed. 48.
Honde. 76. hand. Chaucer. So in Derbyshire now.
Heps. 84. Fruit of the Canker-rose. So now in Derbyshire, and v.
Junius, voce _Hippes_.
Hake. 94. 186. a Fish. v. ad loc.
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