Middle English Dictionary Entry
froise n.
Entry Info
| Forms | froise n. Also frise, fresee. |
| Etymology | OF (but not attested); cp. ML frixa pancake. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. fries ppl.
1.
A kind of pancake containing chopped meat or fish.
Associated quotations
- 1338 *Durh.MS.Cell.Roll [OD col.] : In Carnibus proc' pro froys, ii d.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)96 : For to make a Froys. Nym Veel and seth it wel and hak it smal and grynd bred..and do thereto and frye yt and presse it wel upon a bord.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)108 : For to make Rosee and Fresee.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)4.2732 : He..brustleth as a monkes froise [rime: noise], Whanne it is throwe into the Panne.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)180 : Froyse: frixura.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)42 : Froyse in lentynne.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)50 : For a froyse. Sethe porke or vele and hew hit smalle, Take swongen egges and hew with alle; Frye hom in buttur in panne..With trowʒtes on þe same aray..To serve on fysshe day.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)175 : Fryse: frixura.