The Babees Book: Manners & Meals in Olden Time (Early English Text Society Original Series) (NO.32) - Hardcover

Frederick J. Furnivall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 085991819X ISBN 13: 9780859918190

Publisher: Early English Text Society, 1997

Synopsis

Excerpt: ...and warm your garments well Put off your cares with your clothes, and take them up again in the morning. The Boke of Keruynge The Book of Carving and Arranging; and the Dishes for all the Feasts in the year. Terms of a Carver: Slice brawn, spoil a hen, unbrace a mallard, untache a curlew, border a pasty, thigh small birds, splat a pike, fin a chub, barb a lobster. The Butler has 3 knives: 1. a squarer, 2. a chipper, 3. a smoother. Trencher-bread must be 4 days old; the Salt-Planer of ivory; table cloths kept in a chest, or hung on a perch. To broach a Pipe, have 2 augers, funnels, and tubes, and pierce the Pipe 4 inches from the bottom. Always have ready fruits and hard cheese. Beware of cow cream. Hard cheese is aperient, and keeps off poison. Milk and Junket close the Maw. For food that sets your teeth on edge, eat an almond and hard cheese. A raw apple will cure indigestion. See every night that your wines don't boil over or leak. You'll know their fermenting by their hissing. Names of Wines Campolet, Rhenish, &c To make Ypocras. Take spices; put 6 bags on a perch, 6 pewter basins under, ginger and cinnamon. (Of the qualities of spices.) Pound each spice separately, put 'em in bladders, and hang 'em in your bags, add a gallon of red wine to 'em, stir it well, run it through two bags, taste it, pass it through 6 runners, and put it in a close vessel. Keep the dregs for cooking. Have your Compost clean, and your ale 5 days old, but not dead. To lay the Cloth. Put on a couch, then a second cloth, the fold on the outer edge; a third, the fold on the inner edge. Cover your cupboard, put a towel round your neck, one side lying on your left arm; on that, 7 loaves of eating bread and 4 trencher loaves. In your left hand a saltcellar, in your right the towel. Set the saltcellar on your lord's right, and trenchers on the left of it. Lay knives, bread, spoons, napkins, and cover 'em up. To wrap your Lord's bread stately. Square the...

About this edition

• Publisher: Early English Text Society
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 085991819X
• ISBN 13: 9780859918190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 692