Middle English Dictionary Entry
grāvẹ̄ n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | grāvẹ̄ n.(2) Also gravei, gravi, greve, grovi. |
| Etymology | OF gravé; regarded as a misspelling of grané, although graue is the more frequent spelling in OF. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Sauce or dressing for fish, foul, or rabbit; ~ bastard, ?inferior dressing, using ale for wine; (b) ?fish stock, water in which fish has been boiled.
Associated quotations
a
- [ a1325 Gloss.Bibbesw.(Cmb Gg.1.1)1115 : Puis averent coins en grave. ]
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)118 : For to make Grave enforse. Tak tyd gyngener and Safron and grynd hem in a morter and temper hem up wyth Almandys and..do thereto zolkys of Egge sodyn and fat chese corvyn in gobettis.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.22 : Connynges in Grauey. Take Connynges..and drawe hem with a gode broth with almandes blanched..do þerinne suger and powdour gynger.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.59 : Oysters in Gravey. Schyl Oysters and seeþ hem in wyne and in hare own broth..take almandes blaunched, grynde hem and drawe hem up with the self broth alye it wiþ four of Rys and do the oysters þerinne, cast in powdour of gynger, suger, macys.
- c1400 Femina (Trin-C B.14.40)p.82 : After þey hadde conies in grauey [F graue] fful wel in zeugre y-foundret.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)468 : Eles in Grave. Take almonde mylk and draw hit up with swete wyne..and cast therto sugre, or elles honey clarified; and cast in therto hole culpons of eles clene wasshen.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)13 : Oystres en grauey. Take gode Mylke of Almaundys, and drawe it wyth Wyne an gode Fysshe broþe..Oystrys in grauy bastard. Take grete Oystrys..an take þe water of þe Oystrys, & ale, an brede y-straynid..an Gyngere, Sugre, Saffron, powder pepir, and Salt, an let it boyle wyl; þen put yn þe Oystrys þer-to, and dresse it forth.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)586 : Garus: greue.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.24 : Hennes in grave. Take hennes and rost..þenne Take wyne or peper or venegur to..Lye hit with ȝolkes of eyren wele, Coloure hit with safrone everydele.
- a1500 Feast Tott.(Cmb Ff.5.48)94/262 : Ther was plente of alle To theym that were in halle..Ther was gryndulstones in gravy, And mylstones in mawmany.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)789 : Hec promulada: grovy.
b
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)95 : Þen take a pan, and caste thereto faire grauey of a pike, or of a fressh samon.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)101 : Pike boyled. Take and make sauce of faire water, salt, and a litull Ale and parcelly..And þen make the sauce thus: myce the pouche and fey, and a litul gravey of þe pike, And cast þere-to pouder of ginger, vergeous, mustarde, and salt, And serue him forth hote.