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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    Syiiamome / Canelle * / red wyne / hoot & drye in cinnamon, spice, jjeire doyuge; Turnesole ^ is good & holsom for red wyne colow- andtumesoie.and , rynge: 144 alle Jjese iiigredyentes, |;ey ar for ypocras makynge. Good son, youre powdurs so made, vche by pam self in bleddw?’ laid, hange sure youre perche & bagges ]>at J^ey from yow not brayd, & Jjat no bagge touche ofe?’/do as y haue yow saide; 148 Jie furst bag a galoiuj / alle ojier of a potelle, vchon by o\er teied. Furst put in a basou/i a galouw ij. or iij. wyne so red ; Jjen put in youre powdurs, yf ye wille be sped, and aftyr in-to fe rennere so lett hym be fed, 152 Jjan in-to jje second bagge so wold it be ledde. loke Jiou take a pece in jjyne hand eue?’more amonge, and assay it in Jjy mouthe if hit be any thyngestronge, and if ))ow fele it welle bojje wit/i mouthe & tonge, 156 ])an put it in jje iij. vesselle / & tary not to longe. put each powder in a bladder by itself. Hang your strain- ing-bags so that they mayn’t touch,—first bag a gallon, others a pottle. Put the powders in two or three gallons of red wine; then into [Fol. 173.] the runner, the second bag, (tasting and trying it now and then), and the third vessel. And ])an jiou feele it be not made pai’fete, if R’a not right. Jjat it cast to moche gynge?’, with synamome alay pat hete; and if hit haue synamome to moche, with gynger add cinnamon, .... , ginger, or sugar, Ot ilj. cute ] as wanted. 160 ))an if to moche sigure per be / by discressiouii ye may wete. Thus, son, shaltowmakepcwfite ypocras, as y the say; ' Canel, spyce. Cinamomum,amomum. Promt. Parv. Canelle,omx modeme Cannell or Cinnamom. Cot. (Named from its tube stalk 2 Tourne-soleil. Tornesole, Heliotropium. Cotgrave. Take bleue turnenole, and dip hit in wyne, that the wyne may catch the colour thereof, and colour the potage therwith. H. Ord., p. 465. . . and take red turnesole steped wel in wyne, and colour the potage with that wyne, ibid. ‘ And then with a little Turnsole make it of a high murrey [mulberry] colour.’ Markham’s Ilouswifc, p. 70.