Chastletes (recipe)
From Cunnan
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Period Recipe
From the Forme of Cury.
- CHASTLETES, XX.IX. IX.
- Take and make a foyle of gode past with a roller of a foot brode. & lyngur by cumpas. make iiii Coffyns of že self past uppon že rolleres že gretnesse of že smale of žyn Arme. of vi ynche depnesse. make že gretust in že myddell. fasten že foile in že mouth upwarde. & fasten žee ožere foure in euery syde. kerue out keyntlich kyrnels above in že manere of bataiwyng and drye hem harde in an Ovene. ožer in že Sunne. In že myddel Coffyn do a fars of Pork with gode Pork & ayrenn rawe wiž salt. & colour it wiž safroun and do in anožer Creme of Almandes. and helde it in anožer creme of Cowe mylke with ayrenn. colour it with saundres. anožur manur. Fars of Fygur. of raysouns. of Apples. of Peeres. & holde it in broun. anožer manere. do fars as to frytours blanched. and colour it with grene. put žis to že ovene & bake it wel. & serue it forth with ew ardaunt.
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Notes
- Chastelets. Litlle castles, as is evident from the kernelling and the battlements mentioned. Castles of jelly templewise made. Lel. Coll. IV. p. 227.
- lynger. longer.
- gretust. greatest.
- žee, i. e. thou.
- kyrnels. Battlements. V. Gloss. Keyntlich, quaintly, curiously. V. Gloss.
- bataiwyng. embatteling.
- helde. put, cast.
- another. As the middle one and only two more are provided for, the two remaining were to be filled, I presume, in the same manner alternately.
- holde it broun. make it brown.
- ew ardaunt. hot water. Eau, water; anciently written eue.
