[Sca-cooks] glossary update

[Terry Decker]

There is an obsolete meaning of starve "to change the characteristic
quality."  It usually is translated as "spoil" or "decay."  In this case it
may be being used dialectically to mean "ruin."

Bear


>>>storve - a verb - same source #127 "Storve myed wastel with cold ale"
>>>
>>>Cindy
>>
>>Storve is an obsolete form of starve.  I suspect that in this case the
word
>>is being used to mean meager or poor.
>>
>>Bear
>
>Storve = starve doesn't fit the context. It's a recipe for caudle, which
>we're told not to let boil. "Storve myed wastel" comes in after we've
>carelessly let it boil. Now we have to fix it, so we're adding breadcrumbs
>soaked in ale to thicken it & make the egg clots less noticeable:
>
>[3]if that hit welle, as may be falle,
>[Th]us helpe hit [th]en I wot [th]ou schalle;
>Storve myed wastel with colde ale [th]en,
>And caste [th]er to, sethe hit I ken.
>
>If that it boils, as may befall,
>Thus help it then I know thou shall;
>Storve crumbled wastel [white bread] with cold ale then,
>And add thereto, seethe it I teach.
>
>From the context and other recipes I'd guess it means either to soak the
>breadcrumbs in cold ale, or to sieve them.
>
>
>Cindy