Middle English Dictionary Entry
batūre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | batūre n. Also batour, bat(e)re. |
| Etymology | OF batëure a beating, etc. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A viscous mixture of ingredients 'beaten' together: (a) batter; (b) paste; (c) med. plaster.
Associated quotations
a
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)97 : For to make Fruturs. Nym flowre and eyryn..and mak therto a batour, and par aplyn [etc.].
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.68 : Make a batour of flour and ayren.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)15 : Make þin bature grene with þe Ius of Percely.
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)113/23 : A playster, as thykke as bature.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)45 : Mak a stiff bater of egg and pured floure.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)10a : Batur: Batura, similago.
b
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.38-9 : Take creme of almonde mylke..And ȝolkes of eyren..And make a batere..And loke þy cofyne be hardened wele; Powre in þy batere [etc.].
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.52 : Rost hit wele, and þen dore hit With oute with batere of egges and floure.
c
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)64/159 : Make thow batre of bene floure and of wort.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(1) (Med-L 136)162/490 : Do thou this bature on the flex, as it were a pleystre, and ley this to þe eyȝen.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Sln.122 Artist.Recipes (Sln 122) 87/3 : Take fyne chalk..and grynde it to powder on a stone drie, and..put it in an horn and tempere it in þat horn as it were bater.
Note: Additional quot., sense (a); new spelling.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. batter.