[Sca-cooks] Payn pur-dew

[Laura C. Minnick]

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> MY MODERNIZATION
> Take fair yolks of Eggs and separate them from the white and draw them through
> a strainer, and take Salt and cast there-to; then take fair bread, and
> cut it as [troundey] round; then take fair Butter that is clarified, or
> else fair Fresh grease, and put it in a pot, and make it hot; then
> take & wet well the [troundy] in the yolks, and put them in the pan, and
> so fry them up; but beware of cleaving/sticking to the pan; and when
> it is fried,
> lay them on a dish, and lay Sugar enough there-on, and then serve it forth.
>
> The word is in brackets, "troundey". Does it mean "slices"?

Could be- my ME handbook has 'to-renden' and 'to-rente' as a weak verb,
meaning to tear up, rend apart. I could live with it as indicating that
the bread should be sliced or cut up.

'Lainie
part-time pedant