Salat

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original text from about A.D. 1390

Salat
—Take persel, sawge, garlec, chibolles, oynouns, leek, borage, myntes, porrectes, fenel and ton tressis, rew, rosemarye, purslarye, laue and waische hem clene, pike hem, pluk hem small wiþ þyn honde and myng hem wel with rawe oile. lay on vynegur and salt, and serue it forth.

Modern English

Salat
—Take parsley, sage, garlic, scallions (green onion), onions, leek, borage, mints, young leeks, fennel and cress, rue, rosemary, purslane. Wash these clean in water and pick them and pluck them with your hand and mix them up well with raw(cold) oil. Add vinegar and salt (to dress the salad) and serve it forth.

Cawdel of Samoun

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original text from about A.D. 1390

Cawdel of Samoun
-Take the guttes of Samoun and make hem clene. perboile hem a lytell. take hem up and dyce hem. slyt the white of Lekes and kerue hem smale. cole the broth and do the lekes þerinne with oile and lat it boile togyd yfere. do the Samoun icorne þerin, make a lyour of Almaundes mylke & of brede & cast þerto spices, safroun and salt, seeþ it wel. and loke þat it be not stondyng.

Modern English

Caudel of Salmon
-Take the guts of salmon and make him clean. (clean the salmon). Parboil him a little. Take him up and dice him. Slit the white of Leeks and carve(slice) them small. Cool the broth and put the leeks therein with oil and let it boil together. Add the carved Salmon therein, make a (thickened) sauce of Almond milk and of bread and cast in saffron and salt and boil it will and look that it not be too thick.

Funges

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original text from about A.D. 1390

Funges
—Take Funges and pare hem clere and dyce hem. take leke and shred hym small and do hym to seeþ in gode broth. colour it with safron and do þer inne powdour fort.

Modern English

Mushrooms
—Take mushrooms and pare them (peel off the skin, a method for cleaning mushrooms still used) and dice them. Take a leek (or leeks) and shred them small and boil in good broth. Colour this with saffron and add powder fort (strong spices)

Caboches in Potage

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original text from about A.D. 1390


Caboches in Potage

Take Caboches and quarter hem and seeth hem in gode broth with Oynouns y mynced and the whyte of Lekes y slyt and corue smale and do þer to safroun an salt and force it with powdour douce.

Modern English

Cabbages in Pottage

Take Cabbages and quarter them and boil them in good broth with minced onions and the whites of leeks, split and carved small and add saffron and salt and force it with powder douce (sweet spices).