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 ...

                                
                                  look ye haue of pewtur basons oon, two, & thre,
                                
                                  For to kepe in youre powdurs / also þe licour þerin to renne when þat nede be;
                                
                                  to iij. basouns ye must haue iij bagges renners / so clepe ham we,
                                
                                  & hange þem on a perche, & looke þat Sure they be.
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                                  Se þat youre gynger be welle y-pared / or hit to powder ye bete,
                                
                                  and þat hit be hard / with-owt worme / bytynge, & good hete;
                                
                                  For good gynger colombyne / is best to drynke and ete;
                                
                                  Gynger valadyne & maydelyn ar not so holsom in mete.
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                                  looke þat your stikkes of synamome be thyn, bretille, & fayre in colewre,
                                
                                  and in youre mowthe, Fresche, hoot, & swete / þat is best & sure,
                                
                                  For canelle is not so good in þis crafte & cure.
                                
                                  Synamome is hoot & dry in his worchynge while he wille dure.
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                                  Graynes of paradise, [Graines. Cardamomum, Graine de paradis. Baret. 'Graines of Paradise; or, the spice which we call, Graines.' Cotgrave.]  hoote & moyst þey be:
                                
                                  Sugre of .iij. cute [Cuite, a seething, baking. Cot.]  / white / hoot & moyst in his propurte;
                                
                                  Sugre Candy is best of alle, as y telle the,
                                
                                  and red wyne is whote & drye to tast, fele, & see,
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                                  Graynes [Graines. Cardamomum, Graine de paradis. Baret. 'Graines of Paradise; or, the spice which we call, Graines.' Cotgrave.]  / gynger, longe pepur, & sugre / hoot & moyst in worchynge; [Spices. Of those for the Percy Household, 1512, the yearly cost was £25 19s. 7d. for Piper, Rasyns of Corens, Prones, Gynger, Mace, Clovvez, Sugour, Cinamom, Allmonds, Daytts, Nuttmuggs, Granes, Tornesole, Saunders, Powder of Annes, Rice, Coumfetts, Galyngga, Longe Piper, Blaynshe Powder, and Safferon, p. 19, 20. Household Book, ed. Bp. Percy.]

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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,
Canvas: Page 126
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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