Servise on a Fisshe Day The following menu is from an early fifteenth-century cookery book in Arundel MS 334, where it was given as a suggestion for the proper ordering of a large banquet.
At The First Course Oysturs in Grave | Baken Herringe | Pyke | Stok Fissh | Merlynges Fried At the Seconde Course Eles in Grave | Purpays and Galentine | Congur | Salmon Fresshe | Dorre Rosted | Gurnard Sothen | Baken Eles | Tart At the Thridde Course Rose | Crem of Almondes | Sturgeon | Whelkes | Gret Eles | Lamprons Rosted | Tenches in Gele | Daryolus | Leche-Fryes - Austin, Thomas. Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books. Harleian MS. 279 & Harl. MS. 4016, with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1429, Laud MS. 553, & Douce MS 55. London: for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1888.
NOTES ON THE MENU: Merlynges Fried: instructions for frying fish may be found in step 1 of the recipe for Roseye. Gurnard Sothen uses the recipes Vertsaus Broun & Sauce Gingyuer. |
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