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More luxurious recipes include eggs, almonds, currants, sugar, saffron and orange flower water. Frumenty was served with meat as a pottage, traditionally with venison or even porpoise (considered a "fish" and therefore appropriate for Lent [1]). It was also frequently used as a subtlety, a dish between courses at a banquet.
The Forme of Cury (The Method of Cooking, cury from Old French queuerie, 'cookery') [2] is an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes.Although the original manuscript is lost, the text appears in nine manuscripts, the most famous in the form of a scroll with a headnote citing it as the work of "the chief Master Cooks of King Richard II".
A 1998 attempt to recreate medieval English "strong ale" using recipes and techniques of the era (albeit with the use of modern yeast strains) yielded a strongly alcoholic brew with original gravity of 1.091 (corresponding to a potential alcohol content over 9%) and "pleasant, apple-like taste". [98]
Randolph's recipe had three ingredients: macaroni, cheese, and butter, layered together and baked in a hot oven. [18] The cookbook was the most influential cookbook of the 19th century, according to culinary historian Karen Hess. [19] Similar recipes for macaroni and cheese occur in the 1852 Hand-book of Useful Arts, and the 1861 Godey's Lady's ...
The Oxford English Dictionary gives an etymology of Middle English gruel from the same word in Old French, both of them deriving from a source in Late Latin: grutellum, a diminutive, as the form of the word demonstrates, possibly from an Old Frankish *grūt, surmised on the basis of a modern cognate grout.
Medieval cuisine; Le Viandier – a recipe collection generally credited to Guillaume Tirel, c 1300; Liber de Coquina – (The book of cooking/cookery) is one of the oldest medieval cookbooks. The Forme of Cury – (Method of Cooking, cury being from Middle French cuire: to cook) is an extensive collection of medieval English recipes of the ...
Later recipes, like the one from the 16th-century Good Housewife's Handbook added more ingredients like parsley, feverfew and violets to an egg batter that was fried like pancakes, though with a slightly green coloring from the addition of tansy and other herbs. [2] Baked tansy could also be given a green color by adding spinach juice.
The Middle English name had several spellings, including ffygey, fygeye, fygee, figge, and figee. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The latter is a 15th-century conflation with a French dish of fish and curds called figé , meaning "curdled" in Old French .