[Sca-cooks] Regards the recent request

[Daniel Phelps]

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Good Gentles all:

There was a request recently regards an unpublished account of the reign of Henry VII by one of his secretaries, as a part of which there is a feast menu from 1487 celebrating his coronation.  The request involved the menu.

I have taken the liberty of trying to translate/redact this menu into a more useable form using Curye on Inglysch's glossary.  Yes indeed it is about a century earlier but one uses what one has at hand. The translation/redaction? is in italics under the menu item.  Perhaps it will aid others, or at least amuse.

Daniel Raoul



This is the menu:

***Furst a warner byfor the course.

first an appetizer? before the course (this is based on the repetition of the phrase later in the menu)

Conys of high grece

Rabbits of high fat, i.e. fat rabbits

Sheldes of brawne in armour.

Shields of flesh in armor

Moten roiall richely garnysshed

??? ???? (royal?) richly garnished

Frumetye with veneson.

Frumenty with venison *Frumenty is a dish of boiled, hulled wheat, resembling a modern wheat porridge or pilaff venesoun with furmynte in potage is in Curye on Englysch

Valance bake

??? bake

Bruet riche.

broth rich, i.e. a rich broth

Custarde royall

Custard royal

Hart powderd graunt chare

Hart (deer?) (heart?) powdered (seasoned) ??? ???

Tarte poleyn

Tart chopped? ground?

Fesaunt in trainde royall

pheasants in ??? royal, served in its plumage perhaps?

Leyse damask

??? damask (sugared?)

Swan with chawdron

swan with giblets of the swan in a sauce

Frutt synaper

fruit ???

Capons of high grece

capons of high fat, fat capons

Frutt formage

fruit ??? (fromage?)

Lamperrey in galantyne

Lampreys in aspic

A soteltie, with writing of balades whiche as yet I have not.

A sublety with writing of ballads which as yet I have not

Crane with cretney

crane with a sauce made with milk or possibly almond milk

Pik in latymer sawce

pike in ??? sauce

Herounsew with his signe

herons with his cygna

Carpe in fowle

carp in fowl (a sublety? with fish stuffed in a bird?

Kid reversed

kid (baby goat) reversed

Perche in jeloy deperte.

perch in aspic divide

****A warner byfor the course. (as explained above)

Bittowre

???

Joly ipocras.

jolly hypocras

Fesawnte

???

Mamene with lozenges of golde.

??? with lozenges of gold

Browes

(borewys, bowres, or brynewes)a dish of pork and/or duck or goose in an ale sauce or alternatively a stew based on pigs’ guts, served wit small fritters made of flour and egg white

Pekok in hakell.

peacock in feathers?

Egretes in beowetyer

egrets in ???

Cokkes

roosters

Venesone in past royall.

venison in ??? (paste?) royal

Partricche.

Partridges

Quince baked

quince baked, baked quince

Sturgyn fresshe fenell.

sturgeon in fresh fennel

Marche payne royall

marzapan royal

Plovers.

plovers

A colde bake mete florisshede

a cold baked meat garnished/decorated

Rabett sowker.

rabbit ???

Lethe ciprus

WAG milk and egg custard Cyprus (sweetened with sugar from Cyprus?)

Seyle in fenyn enterly served richely armes.

seal in its fins entirely served richly armed, thus a completely cooked seal served whole

Lethe ruby

WAG milk and egg custard (ruby)( dyed red?)

Red Shankkes.

red shanks, the leg bones of a cow served with the meat on them thus red

Fruter augeo

fritter eggplant?? eggplant fritter (very much a WAG and not supported by reference)

Snytes.

snipes

Fruter mounteyne

fritter (mountain?) mountain fitters?

Quayles.

quails

Castelles of jely in temple wise made

??? of jelly (aspic?) made like a temple?

Larkes ingraylede.

larks ???

Creves de endence.

??? of blue? (a WAG out of inde (indigo))

A soteltie

a subtlety

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