Old English Cooking Words and Phrases

Lady Oksana Goncharova

Glossary of Old English Phrases used in Cooking

A gret whyle = a long time

As though it were half = as if it was diluted in half

Bake it in a trap = bake mixture in a pie shell

Blow away the grease = skim the fat

Boil him (it) tender = simmer gently until done

Bray him (it) in a mortar/ pound it in a mortar with a pestle = grind it small

Cast thereto = add

Cast thereto never a deal = do not add any

Do perto = do thereto

Draw under the cloth, with a ladle = drain the liquid through cheesecloth using a ladle

Grated bread = bread crumbs

Half wine = wine diluted with water to double it’s original volume

Hew them small = chop them finely

If thou like = do what you think best

If thou may = if you have it, use this ingredient

In the self wise = in the same manner

Lay the sewe onoward = lay the juices on top

Let it be somewhat standing = let it be thick enough

Let it boil for nothing = do not boil

Make a coffin = make a pie crust

Messe forth = serve forth

Nym it up = take it up

Put in thine coffin = fill the pie shell (with the mixture)

Put off the skin = peel

Seep it stondyng = simmer until thickened

Seethe hard eggs = hard cook the eggs

Seethe them with = simmer with

Serve it forth = serve the dish

Smite them to gobbets = cut into bite-sized pieces

Smyte it = cut it

Strained yolks = beaten egg yolks

Take a coffin and bake him dry = crisp a pie crust in a hot oven

Take almonds, and blanch them and stamp them in mortar and mix them = make almond milk using broth, water, wine or whatever is specified

Take fair garbage = use entrails, head, feet, etc.

Take it up in a fair linen cloth = place in a strainer or cheese cloth bag for the purpose of draining the liquid

Take away the water clean = drain

Take rice bray in mortar = rice flour

Tease it small = shred

Temper it vp = mix it up

Thou dress in = prepare to serve a dish, IE: make it pretty

Throw it through a strainer = strain with a strainer, or grind through a food mill, for eggs, it means to beat them

When it is enough = when it is cooked

Glossary of Old English words used in cooking

Alay/alye = mixalkyn = all kinds, variousamydon = wheat starch
anys/anneys = anise, anise seedanoon = at once, in due courseapply/appleen/aplyn/applys=apple
appulmos = applesaucearay = dress, cookaskes = ashes
beforne = beforehandbenes = beansbet(e) = beat
bete = beets (beet greens)blanc/blank = whitebolas = plums
bord = tableboter(e) = butterbray(e)/ brey = pound or grind in a mortar
braun = flesh meatbrede = breadbreke = break
breste = burstbren = burnbryddys = birds
broche = spit or skewerbroyt = brothbruse = grind, crush
caboches = cabbagescanel/kanel/flour of canel = cinnamoncaruoun = carved
cast = put into potcawdel = smoothly thickened sauce or soupceuere/ceuyr = cover
charge = thickenchargeour = large dishchawfour/chawfer = pan
checonys/chicones = chickenscheite = drippingscheseberien/chiseberien/chiryse = cherries
chybolles = spring onionschyches = chick peasclene = neatly, carefully
cleuyng = sticking togetherclowe/clowys = clove (Spice)coffin = case or container, usually a pastry shell
cole = coolcoliaundir/colyandre = coriander (Seed)comade = mixture
corf = carvecote = cutcowche = layer
crudde = curdculdore = colander, strainerculpe = cut in thick slices
damysyns = damson plumsdawes = daysdise = dice
dowe = doughdraw/drawe/ydraw = cut up, beaten or strained; blendeddres(se) = arrange for serving
droppe = dredge, basteey/(h)eyryn/ayren/eyre(n) = eggendore/endorre = gild, apply a finish tinted gold
erbes/erbis = herbserthe = earthenwareesy = easy, slow fire, low heat
eurose = rosewaterfair = clean, nice, freshfars = forcemeat, ground meat
fenkel = fennelfere/fure/fuyre = fireflamme = baste
florissh = garnish, decorateforce = stufffound/funde/yfoundred = melt, dissolve, mix
foyles = foil, leaf (Thinly rolled pastry)frissiaus = strawberriesfunges = mushrooms
fygys = figsgarbage = gibletsgees = geese
gleyre = egg whitegobettes = piecesgrete = large
grewel = oatmeal, gruel, porridgegroundyn = ground, brayedhakken = chop
hele = coverhennyn/hennys = hensheppe = rosehips
hem = themhilde = flay, remove skinhirchones = urchins/hedgehogs
hool/hoole = wholehwyte = blanch, peelkele = cool
kerf/kerue = carvekeuere = coverkeyntlich/queyntliche = carefully
knede = kneadkyn/kyne/cwe = cowkyt/ket = cut
leche/leshe = slicelekys = leeksleyue = layer
litel/litul/lytylle/lyte = littlelye(n) = mixl(a)your = thickening
manerlich = in a mannerly fashionmeddlen/medel/melle/medyle togidre = mix, mix togethermeischid = mashed
meng(e) =mix, blendmesse (messe forth)= serve myce/mence/myse = mince
myddell/myddes = middle(y)myed = crumblednast = have not
neowe = freshnesche = rawneme/nim/nym/nyme/nimen=take
noyre = blacknoumbles = organ meat (umbles): heart, liver, kidneynowt = not
o = oroftor = more oftenonoward = above, on top
ouer cast = turn overouer-cover = cover overoy(n)gnouns/oynons = onions
payn = breadpayn(d)emayn = best quality white breadpasternak = root vegetable (botanical name of parsnips/carrots is “pastinaca”)
(y)paunced = decoratedpece = piecepele = peel
peys/pise/pisyn/pesoun=peasper/perys/peeres = pearsperboyle = parboil
pertie = portionplie = foldpomys = apples
possenet = small potpotstyk = stick for stirringpottage = a thick soup or stew
potte suger = cooking sugar (non-clarified)powdur = seasonpynes/penes = pine (pignolia) nuts
quayle = shakequest = crushrafens = radishes
raisins of crinth/raysouns of corauns=currantsrapes = turnipsreysyns/resons = grapes or raisins
ris/ryse = ricesarce =sievesanc dragoun = dragons blood (herb used for coloring food)
saundres/sanders = sandalwood or red sanderssauge = sageself/selue = same
sethe/seeth = simmer or boilsewe = juices, broth or sauceskyrwittes = root vegetable resembling parsnips
sklyse = spatulaslytte = slitsmyte/smite = chop
soppes/sops = toasted pieces of breadspete = spit (put on a spit)spynoches = spinach
stampe = beatstraynour = strainerstondynge = standing, thick
sucre/sucur/ceucre/ceugre=sugarswyng = beat, mixsykym = skim
syue = sievetemper/tempre = mixverious = verjuice, liquid of acid fruits such as sour grapes or crabapples.
vernage = a sweet wine from Italy, similar to sherryvynegre/veneger = wine vinegarvp = up
vndo = cut open (clean out guts)waisshe = washwastel (bred) = high quality white bread
welle = boil, bring to a boilwete/wite = wheatwhyte grece = lard
wyle = whitewise = manner, fashionwyte/wytys/hwte = white of egg
ycorue = carvedyelkys/zolke = yolks of eggynow/ynoun = enough
ytosted = toasted
villagers/oksana/old_english_cooking_words_and_phrases.txt · Last modified: 2008/11/16 10:59 by oksana
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