[Sca-cooks] A Challenge to Find a Dish

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 02:09 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote:
>Your rules do not help me so much but I found a dish that may work...
>But I really like the hunt for the dish that starts with 'C'
>
>Chekyns in browet
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>This is an excerpt from Liber cure cocorum.
>The original source can be found on Thomas Gloning's website.
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>Chekyns in browet. Take chekyns, scalde hom fayre and clene. Take persole, 
>sauge, oþer herb3, grene Grapus, and stope þy chekyns with wynne. Take 
>goode brothe, sethe hom þerinne, So þat þay sone boyled may be. Coloure þe 
>brothe with safrone fre, And cast þeron powder dowce, For to be served in 
>goode mennys howse.

I served this to the Prince and Princess of the Summits at an event last 
month- it went over well and I didn't have to figure out what to do with 
the leftovers- because there weren't any! The only thing I wondered about- 
anyone have an opinion as to whether the grapes were 'green' as in 
underripe, or 'green' as in color?

'Lainie
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