Gelee of Fyssh (recipe)
From Cunnan
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Period Recipe
From the Forme of Cury.
- GELE OF FYSSH. C. I.
- Take Tenches, pykes, eelys, turbut and plays, kerue hem to pecys. scalde hem & waische hem clene. drye hem with a cloth do hem in a panne do žerto half vyneger & half wyne & seež it wel. & take the Fysshe and pike it clene, cole the broth thurgh a cloth into a erthen panne. do žerto powdour of pep and safroun ynowh. lat it seež and skym it wel whan it is ysode dof grees clene, cowche fisshes on chargeours & cole the sewe thorow a cloth onoward & serue it forth.
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Notes
- Gele. Jelly. Gelee, Contents here and in the next Recipe. Gely, Ms. Ed. No. 55, which presents us with much the same prescription.
- pykes. It is commonly thought this fish was not extant in England till the reign of H. VIII.; but see No. 107. 109. 114. So Lucys, or Tenchis, Ms. Ed. II 1. 3. Pygus or Tenchis, II. 2. Pikys, 33 Chaucer, v. Luce; and Lel. Coll. IV. p. 226. VI. p. 1. 5. Luce salt. Ibid. p. 6. Mr. Topham's Ms. written about 1230, mentions Lupos aquaticos five Luceas amongst the fish which the fishmonger was to have in his shop. They were the arms of the Lucy family so early as Edw. I. See also Pennant's Zool. III. p. 280, 410.
- Plays. Plaise, the fish.
- Dof, i. e. do of.
