[Sca-cooks] Payn pur-dew

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 23 Jan 2002, at 6:33, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> FWIW, Austin, in his index and glossary to the Two Fifteenth-Century
> Cookery-Books (of which there are really four or five included, and of
> which Harl. 279 is one), says that troundey corresponds to trundle,
> which is a small wheel.
>
> Whether or not this is another case of Dreaded Victorian Scholarship,
> I don't know.
>
> Adamantius

The Middle English Dictionary (which has temporary free access)
says that tround is of uncertain etymology.  "perh. from round n.
with influence from trendel n. or a related culinary term beginning
with tr- (e.g. trenchour n.)

The definition is:
? a round slice of bread

I assume that the ? means the editors really aren't sure.

The quotation provided is that very same recipe for payn pur-dew.
It may be that it's the only known occurance of the word.


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