SC - OOP - recipe request

[Olwen the Odd]

>
>Wait. Here we go. I got one.
>
>If you could break down Britney Spears into her component primary and
>secondary meat cuts, what 15th-century English dishes would you prepare
>from her?
>
>DOH!!!
>
>Adamantius, sensing trouble on the horizon, but not sure why
>--
>Phil & Susan Troy

How about:
Pynnonade (Curye on Inglysch, FoC 59, 109)

Take almaundes iblaunched and drawe hem sumdell thicke with gode broth other
with water, and set on the fire and seeth it; cast therto zolkes of ayren
ydrawe. Take pynes yfryed in oyle other in grece, and do therto white 
powdour
douce, sugur and salt, & colour it with alkenet a lytel.

Pynade (Two Fifteenth Century, H279 Leche Vyaundez iii, 34/59a)

Take Hony & gode pouder Gyngere, & Galyngale, & Canelle, Pouder pepir, &
graynys of parys, & boyle y-fere; than take kyrnelys of Pynotys & caste
ther-to; & take chyconys y-sothe, & hew hem in grece, & caste ther-to, & lat
sothe y-fere; & then lat droppe ther-of on a knyf; & ghif it cleuyth & 
wexyth
hard, it ys y-now; & than putte it on a chargere tyl it be cold, & mace
lechys, & serue with other metys; & ghif thou wolt make it in spycery, then
putte non chykonys ther-to.

Modern Comments
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This is almost candy. Without the chicken, it _is_ candy.

Edited Recipe, with Modern Instructions
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4 T honey 1/8 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp ginger 1/8 tsp grains of paradise
1/8 tsp galingale 2 T pinolas
1 tsp cinnamon 2 boneless chicken breasts

1. Brown pinolas.
2. Grind grains of paradise.
3. Boil all ingredients through grains of paradise.
4. Add pinolas.
5. Cook carefully until it sticks hard to a knife.
6. Chill and serve.

Enjoy!

Olwen--make room for me under there....
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