Rapey (recipe)

From Cunnan

Contents 1 Period Recipe 1.1 Notes 2 Modern Recipe 2.1 Ingredients 2.2 Method 3 Notes

Period Recipe

From the Forme of Cury.

RAPE. XX.IIII. III.

Take half fyges and half raisouns pike hem and waisshe hem in water skalde hem in wyne. bray hem in a morter, and drawe hem thurgh a straynour. cast hem in a pot and þerwiþ powdour of peper and ooþer good powdours. alay it up with flour of Rys. and colour it with saundres. salt it. & messe it forth.

Notes

• Rape. A dissyllable, as appears from Rapey in the Contents. Rapy, Ms. Ed. No. 49. Rapee, ibid. II. 28.

Modern Recipe

Ingredients

• 500 grams Dates (used as substitution for figs and raisins as what was had in house).
• Verdehlo (sweet but dry white) wine.
• Good Powder
  • Galingale
  • Pepper
  • Mace
• 1 - 2 TBS Rice Flour.

Method

1. Cover the fruit with the wine and cook until soft.
2. Mash (I used the bar mix) into a fine paste.
3. Add the spices. Cook until thickens. If not quite thick enough, add the rice flour and a pinch of salt if necessary. Didn't add colouring (saunders = sandalwood).

Nice on toast or as an accompanyment to meats.

Gwir verch Madog.

Notes

The historical version of this recipe was taken from the Project Gutenberg e-text of the Forme of Cury.