[Sca-cooks] FoC
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Thu Jun 4 04:45:53 PDT 2009
The electronic Middle English Dictionary is up at
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/
*curie* (n.(1)) Also *kewery*, *cure*, *curry*.
[OF *quev(e)rie*; cp. F *queux* a cook.]
(a) Culinary art, cuisine; *cokes ~*; (b) a fine dish; *~ of courte.*
*(a)* *(a1387) Trev. /Higd./(StJ-C H.1)*
1.405: They conne ete and be mury Wiþ oute grete kewery [L Coquorum
artificia].
*(a1399) /Form Cury/ (Add 5016)* title: The Forme of Cury.
*c1440(?a1400) /Morte Arth.(1)/ (Thrn)*
1063: Foully thow fedys the..Here es cury vn-clene.
*a1475 /Liber Cocorum/ (Sln 1986)*
p.1: Of craft..þat tase grete lore In court, þat men calles cure
[rime: degre].
*a1475 /Liber Cocorum/ (Sln 1986)*
p.5: Now sly3tes of cure wylle I preche.
*a1475 Russell /Bk.Nurt./(Hrl 4011)*
375: Þat y myghte..know þe kervynge of fische & flesche, aftur
cockes cure [rime: sure].
*a1475 Russell /Bk.Nurt./(Hrl 4011)*
513: Some maner cury of Cookes crafft Sotelly y haue espied, how
þeire dischmetes ar dressid with hony.
*a1500 /Feast Tott./(Cmb Ff.5.48)*
269,275: Bell clapurs in blawndisare With a nobull cury, For tho
that ete no fish..blobsterdis in white sorre Was of a nobull curry,
With spicery strong.
*(b)* *c1450(?a1400) /Wars Alex./(Ashm 44)*
4275: Haue we no cures of courte ne na comite [read: cointe] sewes,
Swanes ne na swete thing.
*a1475 Russell /Bk.Nurt./(Hrl 4011)*
506: Cookes with þeire newe conceytes..Many new curies alle day þey
ar contryvynge.
Johnnae
Stefan li Rous wrote:
> I don't remember what "Cury" means in medieval English but it has
> little or nothing to do with the so-called Indian curry mixes.
>
> Stefan
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