[Sca-cooks] ham/pork with gold bars

[Johnna Holloway]

We indexed it a couple of different ways in the Concordance of English  
Recipes.
Here's the recipe which is easy to share because Doc indexed it:
This is an excerpt from Ancient Cookery
(England, 1425)
The original source can be found at R. Warner's "Antiquitates  
culinariae" (1791)

[This is actually Arundel 334.]

Pygge in barre. Take a pigge and farse (fluff) hym, and roste hym, and  
in the rostynge endorse (lafle) hym; and when he is rosted lay  
orethwart him over one barre of silver foile, and another of golde,  
and serve hym forthe so al hole to the borde for a lorde.

Johnnae

On Apr 12, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Gaylin Walli wrote:

> My apprentice has asked me if I remember reading a 14th century  
> recipe for
> "ham/pork with gold bars." I have to confess it's maddeningly  
> familiar but
> I can't for the life of me remember where. Can anyone remember? I keep
> thinking Forme of Cury but I don't think that's right. Ideas? I feel  
> like
> I'm just simply overlooking it.
>
> Iasmin
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