← Early English Meals and Manners
Chapter 17
Fried metes
O Fruture viant / Frutur sawge, byñ good / bettur is Frutur powche;
Appulle fruture / is good hoot / but þe cold ye not towche.
Tansey is good hoot / els cast it not in youre clowche.
alle maner of leesseȝ / ye may forbere / herbere in yow none sowche.
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Cookes with þeire newe conceytes, choppynge / stampynge, & gryndynge,
Many new curies / alle day þey ar contryvynge & Fyndynge
þat provokethe þe peple to perelles of passage / þrouȝ peyne soore pyndynge,
& þrouȝ nice excesse of suche receytes / of þe life to make a endynge.
Some with Sireppis / Sawces / Sewes, and soppes,
Comedies / Cawdelles cast in Cawdrons / ponnes, or pottes,
leesses / Ielies / Fruturs / fried mete þat stoppes
and distemperethe alle þe body, bothe bak, bely, & roppes:
Some maner cury of Cookes crafft Sotelly y haue espied,
how þeire dischmetes ar dressid with hony not claryfied.
Cow heelis / and Calves fete / ar dere y-bouȝt some tide
To medille amonge leeches & Ielies / whañ suger shalle syt a-side.
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