Liber cure cocorum / Copied and edited from the Sloane ms. 1986 by Richard Morris.

Date:
1862
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Credit: Liber cure cocorum / Copied and edited from the Sloane ms. 1986 by Richard Morris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And do hit in a barel penne; pe barel staf ful as I pe kenne, Stop wele po hede for wynde and sone, For hit wylle payre po venysone. To keep herb] over pe luyntur. Take floure and rere po cofyns ^ fy^e, Wele stondande withouten stine; Take tenderons of sauge with owte lesyng, And stop one fulle up to po ryng; penne clos^ po 1yd fayre and wele, pat ayre go not oute never a dele, Do so with saveray, percil and rewe; And penne bake horn harde, wel neje brende; Sythun, kepe horn drye and to horn tent^; pis powder schalle be of more vertu, pen opone erpe when hit gru. For lyoure best. Take drye floure, in cofyne hit close. And bake hit hard, as I suppose; pou may hit kepe alle pys fyve ^ere, pere-with alye mony metes sere; Here endys oure sawce, pat I foretolde. De cibis assatis. Of rostyd mete now speke I wolde. For per bene bestes pat schyne be rost, As conyng, pigges, ful wele pou wost, And foules also pat rostyd schyne be On diverse manere in her degre; And kostyf of motone, pat I wele knaw, Enbrochyd shal be, by ryjt gode law; ' a raised crust. ^ stalks. * attend.