[Sca-cooks] Fermented/Pickled Food

[Pat]

How about this for an earlier pickle?
 

Compost - Medieval "chutney"

English, Forme of Cury, late 14th c.

 

Forme of Cury 103

Original Recipe

 

Take rote of parsel, of pasternak, rafens, scrape hem and waische hem 

clene. Take rapes & caboches, ypared and icorue. Take an erthen panne 

with clene water & set it on the fire; cast all (th)ise (th)erinne. 

When (th)ey buth boiled cast (th)erto peeres, & perboile hem wel.

Take alle (th)ise thynges vp & lat it kele on a faire cloth. Do 

(th)erto salt; whan it is colde, do hit in a vessel; take vinegar & 

powdour & safroun & and do (th)erto, & lat alle (th)ise thynges lye 

(th)erin al ny(gh)t, o(th)er al day. Take wyne greke & honey, 

clarified togider; take lumbarde mustard & raisouns coraunce, al hoole, 

& gynde powdour of canel, powdour douce, anys hole, & fenell seed. 

Take alle (th)ise thynges & castt togyder in a pot of erthe, & take 

(th)erof whan (th)oui wilt & serue forth.

 

 


Barbara Benson <voxeight at gmail.com> wrote:

> In honor of Roguszys I'm collecting pre1600 recipes for fermented and
> pickled food. Any and all contributions would be appreciated. My intent is
> to compile them, prepare representitive examples and do a display entry at a
> winter A/S in Trimaris.

Greetings,

I too have been recently pondering pickles and contemplating an A&S
thereof. Pickling is one of those things that have always resided in
my mind as an "Of course" they did it. But on thinking on it I can
bring to mind very few specific instructions on how to go about it.
Now, it is quite amazing what new things can jump out at you when
re-reading (for the bajillionth time) a familiar text with a different
goal in mind. I have not yet began said rereading process, but I will
include below the items that I have, to date, played with in this
area. They all hover around the 1600 date, give or take a decade or
so. (Beginning with the most iffy of provenance - Mme. Fettiplace)

 


Pat Griffin
Lady Anne du Bosc
known as Mordonna the Cook
Shire of Thorngill, Meridies
Mundanely, Millbrook, AL