Middle English Dictionary Entry
lardon n.
Entry Info
| Forms | lardon n. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Cook. A piece of salt pork or bacon inserted in the substance of other meats before roasting; ~ of swin.
Associated quotations
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.92 : Cranys and Herons schulle be euarud [?read: enarmud] wyth Lardons of swyne and rostyd and etyn wyth gyngynyr.
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)p.106 : Nym the tonge of the rether..and seth yt, and sethe nym a broche and larde yt wyth lardons and wyth clowys and gelofre, and do it rostyng.