SC - Perforated or covered vessel?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Hi List,

Forme of Cury, #39, is for Blank dessore.  Take almaundes blaunched;
grynde hem and temper hem vp with whyte wyne, on fleissh day with broth;
and cast therinne flour of rys, pther amydoun, and lye it therwith.  take
brawn of capouns yground, take sugur and salt, and cast therto and
florissh it with aneys whyte.  Take a vessel yholed and put in safroun,
and serue it forth.


One of the footnotes has ' & hele it' in one of the other copies.  H & B,
in the glossary, take this to mean a perforated pot is wanted.  I see no
reason to try to pipe this is design with a funnel type one-hole
perforation, and can't imagine why you'd force it through a colander to
make soupy, or stiff, bits.  Also in the glossary is this: held(e), hyld,
=pour; yholde  =covered.  It makes more sense to me to put the dessore in
a covered dish.  Would a skin form on the surface as it cooled, as in
pudding, because there's wheat starch in it?    Anybody else have an idea
on either one?


I checked the Florilegium, but nobody's put that one in the chicken
recipes.  There wasn't an exact duplicate in 1000 Eggs, either, which
often has a comparable recipe.  

Regards,

Allison
allilyn at juno.com, Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, Pittsburgh, PA
Kingdom of Aethelmearc

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