Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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    HOW TO MAKE YPOCRAS. Have three basins and tliree strain- ing-bags to them; liang ’em on a perch. Let your ginger be well pared, hard, not wonn- eaten. (Colomb3'ne is better than Valadyne or Maydelyne); your sticks of Cinnamon thin. hot and sweet; Canel is not so good. Cinnamon is hot and dry. look ye haue of basons oon, two, & thre, For to ke^je in youre jjowdurs / also Jie licowr ]>en\\ to renne Avlien pat nede be ; to iij, basou?2s ye must liaue iij bagges renners / so clepe ham we, 128 & hange Jiem on a perclie, & looke pat Sure they be. Se jjat youre gynger be welle y-pared / or hit to powder ye bete, and pat hit be hard / wit/i-owt worme / bytjoige, & good hete; For good gynger colombyne j is best to drynke and ete ; 132 Gynger valadyne & maydelyn ar not so holsom in mete. looke fiat your stikkes of synamome be thyn, bretille, & fayre in colewre, and in yoiu’e mowthe, Fresche, hoot, & swete / fat is best & sure, For canelle is not so good in fis crafte & cure. 136 Synamome is hoot & dry in hfs worchjmge while he wille dure. Cardamons are hot and moist. Take sugar or sugar candi', red wine, gralnes, ginger,pepper. Graynes of paradise,* hoote & moyst fey be : Sugre of .iij. cute^ / white / hoot & moyst in his propurte; Sugre Candy is best of alle, as y telle the, 140 and red wyne is whote & drye to tast, fele, & see, Graynes' / gynger, longe pepur, & sugre / hoot & moyst in Avorchynge f 1 Graines. Cardainomum, Graine de paradis. Baret. ‘ Graines of Paradise; or, the spice which we call, Graines.’ Cotgravc. * Ciiite, a seething, baking. Cot. ’ Spices. Of those for the Percy Household, 1512, the yearly cost was £26 19s. Id., for Tiper, Rasyns of Corens, Prones, Gynger, Mace, Clovvez, Sugour, Cinamom, Allmonds, Daytts, Nuttmuggs, Grams, Tornesole, Saunders, Powder of Amies, Rice, Coumfetts, Galyngga, Longe Piper, Playnshe Powder, and Safferon, p. 19, 20. Household Book, ed. Bp. Percy.