Fw: [Sca-cooks] Regards the recent request
Hrolf Douglasson
Hrolf at btinternet.com
Sun May 13 09:31:27 PDT 2001
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Regards the recent request
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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There was a request recently regards an unpublished account of the reign of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
I have added what I knoqw
VARA
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( try mutton here)vara
??? ???? (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?The whole skin was taken off feathers and all. The bird
then vcooked and put back in its skin to be served Vara
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.a soaker....done in beer/ale/wine vara
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 Castles of jelly
Jelly...fruit and gelatine etc formed into castles and temples with cream
etc vara
??? of jelly (aspic?) made like a temple?
Larkes ingraylede.
larks ???
Creves de endence.
??? of blue? (a WAG out of inde (indigo))is the inde indigo or india
blue or spiced
vara
A soteltie
a subtlety
Hope the bits I added helped
Vara
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