Leche lumbard (recipe)
From Cunnan
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Period Recipe
From the Forme of Cury.
- LECHE LUMBARD. XX.III. V.
- Take rawe Pork and pulle of the skyn. and pyke out şe skyn synewes and bray the Pork in a morter with ayrenn rawe do şerto suger, salt, raysouns coraunce, dates mynced, and powdour of Peper powdour gylofre. an do it in a bladder, and lat it seeş til it be ynowhz. and whan it is ynowh, kerf if leshe it in likenesse of a peskodde, and take grete raysouns and grynde hem in a morter, drawe hem Up wiş rede wyne, do şerto mylke of almaundes colour it with saunders an safroun. and do şerto powdour of peper an of gilofre and boile it. and whan it is iboiled; take powdour of canel and gynger, and temper it up with wyne. and do alle şise thynges togyder. and loke şat it be rennyns, and lat it not seeş after that it is cast togyder, an serue it forth.
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Notes
- Leche Lumbard. So called from the country. Randle Home says, Leach is "a kind of jelly made of cream, ising-glass, sugar and almonds, with other compounds."
- Leshe it. Vide Gloss.
- Peskodde. Hull or pod of a pea.
- rennyns. Perhaps thin, from the old renne, to run. Vide Gloss.
