[Sca-cooks] online glossary

[James Prescott]

At 18:24 +0200 2001-06-05, Cindy M. Renfrow wrote:

> hurdle -
> (A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, 1636) - To make Prince-bisket
> bread... and dry them againe upon a hurdle of Wicker...

Originally a fence section: think weaving, uprights (warp) with long
flexible sticks woven between them, alternating above and below (weft).
Presumably here made in a smaller size as a bread rack.


> Must

Grape juice.


> Mustard (sauce)

Menagier has "Soak the mustard seed overnight in good vinegar, grind
it in a mill, and then moisten it little by little with vinegar.  If
you have any spices left over from Hippocras or sauces, grind them
with it."


> menjoire - a dish found in le Viandier

No translation.  A decorated stew made from assorted birds or (on
fish days) from assorted fish.

The closest word in French seems to be 'mangeoire', the word for
'manger' in the sense of a trough where food for animals is placed.
If there is a connection to the dish it's not obvious to me.


Thorvald