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
Mete. 67. A.S. and Chaucer. Meat. _Meetis_, Proem. Meats. It means
also _properly_, MS. Ed. II. 21. Chaucer.
Myng. 68. MS. Ed. 30. _ming_, 76. meng, 127. 158. MS. Ed. 32. Chaucer.
to mix. So _mung_, 192. is to stir. Wiclif. v. Mengyng. A.S.
[Anglo-Saxon: mengan].
Morow. at Morow. 72. in the Morning. MS. Ed. 33. a Morrow, Chaucer.
on the Morow. Lei. Coll. IV. p. 234.
Makke. 74. a dish.
Meel, Mele. 86. 97. Meal. _Melis_, Meals. Chaucer. Belg. _Meel_.
Macrows. 62. Maccharone. vide ad locum.
Makerel. 106.
Muskles, Muskels. 122. Muscles. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: murcule].
Malard, Maulard. 141. meaning, I presume, both sexes, as ducks are
not otherwise noticed. Holme, III. p. 77. and Mr. Topham's MS.
Mylates, whyte. 153. a dish of pork, 155.
Myddell. 170. midle. _myddes_. 175. the same.
Mawe. 176. Stomach of a Swine. Chaucer. Junii Etym.
Moold. 177. Mould.
Maziozame. 191. Marjoram. See the various orthographies in Junius, v.
Majoram.
Male Marrow. 195. qu.
Moyle. v. Ris. v. Fronchemoyle.
Mulberries. 99. 132. v. Morree.
Myce, myse. MS. Ed. 8. 15. mince, myed. II. 19. minced, ymyed, 35.
for ymyced. myney, II. 3. myneyd, II. 1.
Mo. MS. Ed. 38. more. Chaucer.
Maner. _of_ omitted. MS. Ed. 45. 47, 48. II. 2. 28.
Mad, ymad. MS. Ed. II. 9. made.
Mychil. MS. Ed. 48, much. Chaucer, v. moche. Junius v. mickel.
Myntys. MS. Ed. II. 15. Mint. _Myntys_, Brit.
N.
A Nost, I. crasis of _an Oste_, or Kiln; frequent in Kent, where
_Hop-oste_ is the kiln for drying hops. 'Oost or East: the same that
kiln or kill, Somersetshire, and elsewhere in the west,' Ray. So
_Brykhost_ is a Brick-kiln in Old Parish-Book of _Wye_ in Kent, 34 H.
VIII. 'We call _est_ or _oft_ the place in the house, where the smoke
ariseth; and in some manors _austrum_ or _ostrum_ is that, where a
fixed chimney or flew anciently hath been,' Ley, in Hearne's Cur.
Disc. p. 27. _Mannors_ here means, I suppose manor-houses, as is
common in the north. Hence _Haister_, for which see Northumb. Book, p.
415. 417. and Chaucer, v. Estris.
Noumbles. 11. 13. Entrails of any beast, but confined now to those
of a deer. I suspect a crasis in the case, quasi _an Umble_, singular
for what is plural now, from Lat. _Umbilicus_. We at this day both
say and write _Umbles_. _Nombles_, MS. Ed. 12. where it is _Nomblys
of the venyson_, as if there were other Nomblys beside. The Fr. write
Nombles.
Non. 68. no. Chaucer. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: nan].
Nyme. 114. take, _recipe_. Sax. niman. Chaucer. used in MS. Ed.
throughout. See Junius. v. Nim.
Notys. 144. Wallenotes, 157. So _Not_, MS. Ed. II. 30. Chaucer. Belg.
Note.
Nysebek. 173. a dish. quasi, nice for the _Bec_, or Mouth.
Nazt, nozt. MS. Ed. 37. not.
O.
Oynons. 2. 4. 7. Fr. Oignons. Onions.
Orage. 6. Orache.
Other, oother. 13, 14. 54. 63. MS Ed. sæpe. Chaucer. Wiclif. A.S.
[Anglo-Saxon: oþer]. or.
On, oon. 14. 20. alibi. in. as in the Saxon. _One_ MS.
Ed 58. II. 21. Chaucer.
Obleys. 24. a kind of Wafer, v. ad loc.
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