Middle English Dictionary Entry
quiste n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | quiste n.(2) Also quisht(e. |
| Etymology | OE cusceote |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The European wood pigeon Columba palumbus or ringdove; cook. quistes (steue), a stew prepared with the stuffed bird and pieces of beef or mutton.
Associated quotations
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)1.758 : So hoot is no donge Of foul as of the dowue, a quyshte [vr. quysht; L gloss. palumbe; L palustrium] out take.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)8 : Quystis Scune [read: Stuue]: Take a pece of beef or of mutoun..þan take quystes an stoppe hem wyth-in wyth hole pepyr..an þanne serue hem forth in a fayre dyshhe, a quyste or to in a dysshe in þe maner of a potage.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)44 : To mak quystis, tak a pece of beef or of moton and wyne and water and boile it and..then stop the quistes within with whole peppur and cast them in a pot..and let it stewe welle..and put them in faire disches, one or ij in a dische, for a maner of potage, and when they be serued furthe, tak alitill brothe and put in the disches among the quystis and serue it.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: This entry deprecated. See cǒu-shō̆te n.--per MLL