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Buttered Wortes
Mar. 7th, 2011 06:31 pmTake al manor of good herbes that thou may gete, and do bi ham as is forsaid; putte hem on þe fire with faire water; put þer-to clarefied buttur a grete quantite. Whan thei ben boyled ynough, salt hem; late none otemele come ther-in. Dise brede small in disshes, and powre on þe wortes, and serue hem forth.
- Austin, Thomas. Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books. Harleian MS. 279 & Harl. MS. 4016, with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1429, Laud MS. 553, & Douce MS 55. London: for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1888.
Wortes = greens viz spinach, cabbage, beet greens, onion, leeks, parsley etc. My favourite line is "late none otemele come ther-in" ie "don't let any oatmeal try to muscle its way in!"
- Austin, Thomas. Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books. Harleian MS. 279 & Harl. MS. 4016, with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1429, Laud MS. 553, & Douce MS 55. London: for The Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., 1888.
Wortes = greens viz spinach, cabbage, beet greens, onion, leeks, parsley etc. My favourite line is "late none otemele come ther-in" ie "don't let any oatmeal try to muscle its way in!"
