Cookbooks and Cooking
I return your very curious Roll of Cookery, and I trust with some Interest, not full I confess nor legal, but the utmost which your Debtor, from the scantiness of his ability, can at present afford. Indeed, considering your respectable situation in life, and that diffusive sph...
Nym rys and lese hem and wasch hem clene and do thereto god almande mylk and seth hem tyl they al to brest and than lat hem kele and nym the lyre of the hennyn or of capouns and...
7. Part 7Take Pork and seeþ it wel and grinde it smale and medle it wiþ ayren & brede. ygrated. do þerto powdour fort and safroun with pyner & salt. take & close litull Balles in foiles...
6. Part 6[1] Gele. Jelly. _Gelee_, Contents here and in the next Recipe. _Gely_, Ms. Ed. No. 55, which presents us with much the same prescription. [2] It is commonly thought this fish w...
4. Part 4[1] This is a kind of Preamble to the Roll. A space is left for the initial word, intended to be afterwards written in red ink, and presumed to be Ðis. _Fome_, the _lineola_ ove...
5. Part 5Take pork ysode and grynde it small with safroun, medle it with ayrenn and raisons of coraunce and powdour fort and salt, and make a foile of dowhz [2] and close the fars [3] þe...
9. Part 9They schul be flayn and ket in gobett' and sodyn and grynd peper and safroun other myntys and persele and bred and ale and temper it wyth the broth and boyle it and serve it forth.
10. Part 10Foyles. 49. rolled Paste. _Foyle of dowhz_, 50. 92. et per se, 148. 53. _Foile of Paste_, 163. Leaves of Sage, 161. Chaucer. v. ad 175. hence Carpe in Foile. Lel. Coll. IV. p. 2...
1. Part 1I return your very curious Roll of Cookery, and I trust with some Interest, not full I confess nor legal, but the utmost which your Debtor, from the scantiness of his ability, c...
11. Part 11Stale. 177. Stalk. Handle. used now in the North, and elsewhere; as a fork-stale; quære a crasis for a fork's tail. Hence, Shaft of an Arrow. Lel. Coll. VI. p. 13. Chaucer. A.S....
2. Part 2Thus, to return, in that little anecdote relative to the Conqueror and William Fitz-Osbern, mentioned above, not the crane, but _the flesh of the crane_ is said to have been und...
3. Part 3[Addenda: add 'vi. 22. where _Noah_ and the beasts are to live on the same food.'] [2] Genesis xviii. xxvii. Though their best repasts, from the politeness of the times, were ca...
12. Part 12[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 o...
13. Part 13L s d 5 quarters, 6 bushels of Wheat, 50 2 3 bushels of Wheat Flower, 0 5 11 6 quarters malte, 29 0 72 Barrels Beer, 0 12 10 Brewing 6 quarters Malte, 0 4 0 Bakyng, 0 1 6 82 Gey...