[Sca-cooks] FW: OED Definition of a word "hocchee"

[Terry Decker]

Try the Old French "hocher" meaning "to shake together" (mix or stew).  It's 
the origin of the Middle English "hochepot."

Bear


> This word appears in a recipe one of my protégés is trying to redact, and
> she has come across conflicting definitions. Could someone with access to
> the OED or some other likely source please let me know what is said about
> this word?
>
> The recipe is Elizabethan, from a cook book (The Forme of Cury) presented 
> to
> Elizabeth by Richard II.  The recipe reads:
>
> CHYKENS IN HOCCHEE [1]. XXXIIII.
>
> Take Chykenns and scald hem. take parsel and sawge withoute eny oþere
> erbes. take garlec an grapes and stoppe the Chikenns ful and seeþ hem
> in gode broth. so þat þey may esely be boyled þerinne. messe hem an
> cast þerto powdour dowce.
>
> [1] Hochee. This does not at all answer to the French _Hachis_, or
>    our _Hash_; therefore qu.
>
>
>
> She is trying to find out what the term "Hocchee" means. Can anyone 
> assist?
> How about the composition of "powdour douce"
>
> ~
>
> Bronwen