The babees book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The lvtille childrenes lvtil boke, The bokes of nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of keruynge, The booke of demeanor, The boke of curtasye, Seager's Schoole of vertue, &c. &c. with some French and latin poems on like subjects, and some forewords on education in early England. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...

                                
                                  looke þow haue tarrers [An Augre, or wimble, wherewith holes are bored. Terebra & terebrum. Vng tarriere. Baret's Alvearie, 1580.]  two / a more & lasse for wyne;
                                
                                  wyne canels [A Cannell or gutter. Canalis. Baret. Tuyau, a pipe, quill, cane, reed, canell. Cotgrave. Canelle, the faucet [l. 68] or quill of a wine vessel; also, the cocke, or spout of a conduit. Cot.]  accordynge to þe tarrers, of box fetice & fyne;
                                
                                  also a gymlet sharpe / to broche & perce / sone to turne & twyne,
                                
                                  with fawcet [A Faucet, or tappe, a flute, a whistle, a pipe as well to con|ueigh water, as an instrument of Musicke. Fistula . . Tubulus. Baret.]  & tampyne [Tampon, a bung or stopple. Cot. Tampyon for a gon—tampon. Palsg.]  redy / to stoppe when ye se tyme.
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                                  So when þow settyst a pipe abroche / good [sone,] do aftur my lore:
                                
                                  iiij fyngur ouer / þe nere chyne [The projecting rim of a cask. Queen Elizabeth's 'yeoman drawer hath for his fees, all the lees of wine within fowre fingers of the chine, &c.' H. Ord. p. 295, (referred to by Halliwell).]  þow may percer or bore;
                                
                                  with tarrere or gymlet perce ye vpward þe pipe ashore,
                                
                                  and so shalle ye not cawse þe lies vp to ryse, y warne yow euer more.
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                                  Good sone, alle maner frute / þat longethe for seson of þe yere,
                                
                                  Fygges / reysons / almandes, dates / buttur, chese [? This may be butter-cheese, milk- or cream-cheese, as contrasted with the 'hard chese' l. 84-5; but butter is treated of separately, l. 89.]  / nottus, apples, & pere,
                                
                                  Compostes [Fruit preserves of some kind; not the stew of chickens, herbs, honey, ginger, &c., for which a recipe is given on p. 18 of Liber Cure Cocorum. Cotgrave has Composte: f. A condiment or compo|sition; a wet sucket (wherein sweet wine was vsed in stead of sugar), also, a pickled or winter Sallet of hearbes, fruits, or flowers, condited in vinegar, salt, sugar, or sweet wine, and so keeping all the yeare long; any hearbes, fruit, or flowers in pickle; also pickle it selfe. Fr. compote, stewed fruit. The Recipe for Compost in the Forme of Cury, Recipe 100 (C), p. 49-50, is "Take rote of persel. pasternak of rasens. scrape hem and waische hem clene. take rapis & cabochis ypared and icorne. take an erthen panne with clene water, & set it on the fire. cast all þise þerinne. whan þey buth boiled, cast þerto peeris, & parboile hem wel. take þise thyngis up, & lat it kele on a fair cloth, do þerto salt whan it is colde in a vessel; take vinegur, & powdour, & safroun, & do þerto, & lat alle þise þingis lye þerin al nyȝt oþer al day, take wyne greke and hony clarified to|gidur, lumbarde mustard, & raisouns corance al hool. & grynde pow|dour of canel, powdour douce, & aneys hole. & fenell seed. take alle þise þingis, & cast togydur in a pot of erthe. and take þerof whan þou wilt, & serue forth."]  & confites, chare de quynces / white & grene gyngere;

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Title: The babees book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The lvtille childrenes lvtil boke, The bokes of nurture of Hugh Rhodes and John Russell, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of keruynge, The booke of demeanor, The boke of curtasye, Seager's Schoole of vertue, &c. &c. with some French and latin poems on like subjects, and some forewords on education in early England. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall ...
Author: Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. 1825-1910,
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Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by N. Trübner & co.,; 1868.
Subject terms: Home economics -- England.; Education -- England.; Etiquette, Medieval; Table; England -- Social life and customs

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