SC - PAYNE RAGOUN

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Some questions please:
What does  *cipre* mean?
What is *pynes*?
Why does one lay out the resulting paste onto a table?  
*lesh* it?  Huh?  Corral it?  so keep it in a bowl!
Thanks Phillipa

Take hony and sugur cipre and clarifie it togydre, and boile it with esy 
fyre, and kepe it wel fro brenyng. And whan it hath yboiled a while, take up 
a drope therof with thy fyngur and do it in a litel water, and loke if it 
hong togydre; and take it fro the fyre and do therto pynes the thriddendele & 
powdour gyngeuer, and stere it togyder til it bigynne to thik, and cast it on 
a wete table; lesh it and serue it forth with fryed mete, on flessh dayes or 
on fisshe dayes.