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
[Footnote 1: Gervas] below _Gervys_. So unsettled was our orthography,
even in the reign of Henry VIII. So _Nevile_, and below _Nevill_. Mary,
third daughter of Sir John Nevil of Chever, was first wife of Sir
Gerv. Clifton of Clifton, com. Nott. Knight.]
[Footnote 2: 8s.] The sum is L. 7. 14 s. 8 d. but ought to be L. 8. 8s.
so that there is some mistake here. _N.B_. This manuscript is
given in our common figures; but the original, no doubt, is in the
Roman.]
[Footnote 3: 2s. 8d.] This again is wrongly computed. There may be other
mistakes of the same kind, which is here noted once for all; the reader
will easily rectify them himself.]
[Footnote 4: Fronslet.] f. Frontlet, as lin. 10.]
[Footnote 5: Damask Gold.] Gold of Damascus, perhaps for powder.]
[Footnote 6: Laynes.] qu.]
[Footnote 7: Eyye.] f. Egg.]
[Footnote 8: Pasts.] Pastboards.]
[Footnote 9: Lusants.] qu.]
[Footnote 10: Heares]. f. Hares.]
[Foornote 11: Myllen], _Milan_, city of Lombardy, whence our
_millaner_, now _milliner_, written below _millen_.]
[Footnote 12: Bridge]. Brugge, or Bruges, in Flanders.]
[Footnote 13: Brawns]. The Boar is now called a Brawn in the North, vid.
p. 126.]
[Footnote 14: 2 Swans]. f. 6 Swans.]
[Footnote 15: Cranes]. v. p. 67.]
[Footnote 16: Heron sews]. In one word, rather. See p. 139.]
[Footnote 17: of Grease]. I presume fatted.]
[Footnote 18: Withers]. Weathers.]
[Footnote 19: Barley malt]. So distinguished, because wheat and oats were
at this time sometimes malted. See below, p. 172.]
[Footnote 20: Loaves of Sugar]. So that they now had a method of refining
it, v. p. xxvi.]
[Footnote 21: Proynes]. Prunes, v. p. 148.]
[Footnote 22: Poils]. Misread, perhaps, for Joils, _i.e._ Jowls.]
[Footnote 23: Great Raisons, ] v. p. 38.]
[Footnote 24: Tornselt]. Turnfole, v. p. 38.]
[Footnote 25: Torts]. qu.]
[Footnote 26: Suckets]. These, it seems, were sold ready prepared in the
shops. See the following Rolls.]
Sir John Nevile, of Chete, Knight.
The marriage of my Son-in-law, Roger Rockley[1], and my daughter
Elizabeth Nevile, the 14th of January, in the 17th year of the reigne
of our Soveraigne Lord King Henry the VIIIth.
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