Middle English Dictionary Entry
kervelettes n. plural
Entry Info
| Forms | kervelettes n. plural |
| Etymology | ?AF; cp. CF chier (var. kier) & filet. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Cook.?Choice bits, the finely divided ingredients of the sauce called camelin.
Associated quotations
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.30 : Sawce camelyne, kervelettes, and oþer thyngus. Take raysons of corouns and kyrnels smalle Of notes..Flowre of canel þou schalle take, þenne Bray alle togedur..And messe hit forthe; þis is sawce fyne, Þat men calles camelyne.