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
Leche Lumbard. 65. from the country doubtless, as the mustard, No.
100. See also Lel. Coll. VI. p. 6. 26. _Leches_. MS. Ed. 15. are
Cakes, or pieces. Rand. Holme makes _Leach_, p. 83. to be 'a kind of
Jelly made of Cream, Ising-glass, Sugar, and Almonds, &c.' The
_Lessches_ are fried, 158. v. yleeshyd. _Leyse Damask_. Lel. Coll. IV.
p. 226. _Leche baked_. VI. p. 5. _Partriche Leiche_. Ibid. _Leche
Damaske_. Ibid. See also, p. 10. _Leche Florentine_, p. 17. _Leche
Comfort_. Ibid. _Leche Gramor_. Ibid. Leche Cypres, p. 26. which in
Godwin de Præsul. p. 697. is _Sipers_, malè.
Lete Lardes. 68. v. ad loc.
Lave. 76. wash.
Leyne. 82. a Layer.
Lewe water. 98. Lews water, MS. Ed. II. 10. warm; see Gloss. to
Wiclif. and Junius. v. Lukewarm.
Lumbard Mustard. 100. from the country. v. Leche. how made, No. 145.
Lef. MS. Ed. 56. leave. _Lefe_, Chaucer.
Lite. 104. a few, _alite_, as they speak in the North. Chaucer, v.
Lite, and Lyte, and Mr. Lye in his Junius.
Laumpreys. 126. Lampreys, an Eel-like Sea Fish. Pennant, Brit. Zool.
III. p. 68.
Laumprons. 127. the _Pride_. Pennant, Ibid. p. 61. See Lel. Coll. VI.
p. 6. 17. bis 23. Mr. Topham's MS. has _Murenulas sive Lampridulas_.
Looches, Loches. 130. 133. the fish.
Lardes of Swyne. 146. i.e. of Bacon. hence _lardid_, 147. and
_Lardons_. MS. Ed. 3. 43. from the Fr. which Cotgrave explains
_Slices of Lard_, i.e. Bacon. vide ad 68.
Lorere tre. MS. Ed. 55. Laurel tree. Chaucer.
Lyuours. 152. Livers. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: lyper].
Led. MS. Ed. 56. carry. _lide_, Chaucer.
Lenton. 158. Lent.
Lynger. 159. longer. Chaucer has _longer_ and _lengir_. v. Lange.
Lopuster, Lopister. MS. Ed. II. 7. 16. v. Junii Etymolog.
Lust. as, hym lust. Proem, he likes. Chaucer, v. Lest.
Lewys. MS. Ed. 41. Leaves. Lefe, Chaucer. v. Lef.
Lie. Liquor. Chaucer. MS. Ed. 48.
Ley. MS. Ed. 6. lay.
Lese, les. MS. Ed, 14. II. 7, 8. pick. To _lease_, in Kent, is to
glean.
M.
Make. 7. MS. Ed. 12. 43. II. 12. to dress. _make forth_, 102. to do.
MS. Ed. II. 35.
Monchelet. 16. a dish.
Mylk, Melk. MS. II. 30. Milk of Almonds, 1. 10. 13. alibi.
Moton. 16. MS. Ed. 1. Mutton, See Lel. Coll. IV. p. 226. Flemish.
_Motoen_.
Mawmenee. 20. 193. a dish. v. ad loc. how made, 194. _Mamane_. Lel.
Coll. IV. p. 227. Mamonie. VI. p. 17. 22. royal, 29. Manmene, MS. Ed.
29, 30. _Mamenge_. E. of Devon's Feast.
Morterelys. v. Mortrews.
Medle. 20. 50. alibi. to mix. Wiclif. Chaucer.
Messe. to messe the dysshes, 22. messe forth, 24.
Morre. 38. MS. Ed. 37. II. 26. a dish. v. ad loc.
Mortrews. 45. _Mortrews blank_, 46. of fish, 125. _Morterelys_, MS.
Ed. 5. where the recipe is much the same. 'meat made of boiled hens,
crummed bread, yolk of eggs, and safron, all boiled together,' Speght
ad Chaucer. So called, says Skinner, who Writes it _mortress_,
because the ingredients are all pounded together in a mortar.
Moscels. 47. Morsels. Chaucer has _Morcills_. Moscels is not amiss,
as _Mossil_ in Chaucer is the muzle or mouth.
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