[Sca-cooks] Brandreths and bakestones oh my...
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Tue Jun 22 13:00:25 PDT 2010
This is a term that can be searched in the Middle English Dictionary
which is online for members of the public.
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/med/lookup.html
brand-reth (n.) Also brand-rith, -rath, -ret & -let, -led, brend-let,
brenled.
[ON (cp. OI brand-reið) & OE brandrd, -red(a, -rida.]
1.
(a) A grate, gridiron, or trivet for supporting cooking utensils above
a fire; (b) a gridiron for torture.
(a) (1360) Invent.Monk-Wear.in Sur.Soc.29 152: In coquina..ij
brandreths. (1400) Will York in Sur.Soc.45 14: j brandereth cum vj
barrez ferri. (c1422) Invent.Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.12 202: ij
pothokys, ij brendled, j fleshhok. (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221) 47:
Brandelede [Win: braynloyde]: Tripes. c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)
7/29: Tak grene 3erdis of esche & lay þam ouer a brandrethe & make a
fire vnder þam. (1459-60) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.99 89: It. j magnum
Brandreth cum ij costeris, et j parvum Brandreth. (1465) Acc.R.Dur.in
Sur.Soc.99 244: Item j brandreth cum iiijor costis ferreis. Item j
brandreth rotundum. (1465) Paston 4.202: ij rakks of yron, ij
brendeletts. ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb) 769/26: Hic tripes: a
brenlede.
(b) c1450 St.Eras.(Add 36983) p.203: Þe xliii [passion] was
brennyng on a brandlete bounden þerto.
Johnnae
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