[Sca-cooks] Nosewis

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

A quick web search indicates that no one is completely sure. On one
historical forum, I found this definition:
Nosewis in compost [a dish composed of nuts in a spiced/sugared preserve of
fruits or vegetables

This makes sense to me. 'nois' is Old French for nuts/walnuts. And we have
period recipes for compost.

Brighid ni Chiarain

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:48 PM, Alexander Clark <alexbclark8 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Does anyone here know what the "Nosewis" in the coronation menu for
Richard
> III might be?  From the context I would guess that it was supposed to mean
> a kind of fruit, such as dates, quinces, or pears.
>
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> Alex Clark/Henry of Maldon
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