Sunday, March 21, 2010

From the Cookbook of Mrs. Grace Acton, 1621

 Herbs to season
 Herbs to cure
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Though this cookbook was dated to the early 17th century, some of the recipe names and menu read more like a 15th century recipe book
Follow this link to 15th century (and earlier) recipes and translation in my other blog: Recipe a Day

the recipes:
Viande Royal
Browet of Almayne
To cure a wen in neck
Syllabub
Peacock with the skin
cure for Bed wetting
Bruce
Drope
Rose
For a sty on the eye
Leche Lumbarde
Cure for cough
To ease a woman big with child
boar in egredouce

Table for a menu:
           1.
Browet farced and charlet
Baked mallard, Eeals, small birds
almond milk withall.
Capon roast with syrup
Roast veal. Pig Roasted. Herons
A leche A tart of flesh
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           2.
Browet of Almayne Viavnde?al
Mallard conies phasant venison
Jelly a leche urchynnes
Pomme de orynge
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           3.
Boar in egredouce  Mawmene
Cranes curlew. Partridge
A leche  A Crustade
A Peacock endored roasted
served with the skin
Cockatris Flampoyntes? Daryole
Pears in syrup
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recipes from book to follow

1 comment:

Marian said...

Thank you for your transcriptions of historic recipes! I saw many items here that I had not encountered elsewhere.

In the "receipt" Cure for Bed Wetting
"Boil a mouse in urine and pound wythe chopped acorn and see coal (coral?) and feed to the child on empty gutt," you seem to question the term "sea coal." This is a well known term. see:
http://askville.amazon.com/sea-coal/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=4617109

Old Marian