Middle English Dictionary Entry
tart(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | tart(e n. Also (?error) tartee; pl. tart(e)s, tartus, (late) tarthis. |
| Etymology | OF tarte, tartre; also cp. ML tarta. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A baked dish consisting of a pastry crust or shell and a filling of meat, cheese, fruit, etc., sometimes covered with another crust, a pie, tart; (b) in surname.
Associated quotations
a
- 1381 Dc.257 Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)78.82/1 : For to make tartys in applis, tak..applys..do yt in a cofyn..bake.
- ?c1400 Dur-U.Menus (Dur-U Cosin V.3.11)40.3/4 : At þe ii cours, swannes & herouns, fesauntes, þerwith tartes bosewes.
- a1425(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)136.172/1 : Tartee [?read: Tartre]: Take pork ysode..ayren, raisouns..make a crust in a trap, & do þer fars þerin, & bake it.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)7041 : They defende them..With tartes [F tartes], or with..flawns.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)448 : Tart on Ember-Day..Tart de Bry..Tart for Lenton.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)450 : At the firste course..a tarte of flessh.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)487 : Taarte, bake mete [KC: tart, pasty]: Tarta.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)48 : Tartes of Frute in lente: Take Fygys..putte it on þin cofynne..& bake hym.
- c1450(?a1370) Winner & W.(Add 31042)341 : Wastoure..schall dighte thaym to dyne with dayntethes so many..quarterd swannes, Tartes of ten ynche.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)75 : Tartus: Take..chese..make a large coffyn of faire paste..caste the stuffe there-to..sette in þe oven with-oute lydde, and lete bake..if þou wilt, lete him haue a lydde.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)565/44 : Artocrea: a tart.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.55 : For the thrydde cours, now take shalle..tarts and daryels.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)52 : To mak tartes of fflesche tak pork..mak gret coffins with lowe liddes..bak them.
- a1485 *Hrl.1735 Cook.Recipes (Hrl 1735)113 (f.16v) : A tarte of fysche: Tak fygges & reysingis...
- a1500 Sln.442 Menu in Hieatt Ord.Pottage (Sln 442)p.110 : The ffyrsthe cowrs: Venyson with fyrmente, Vyand bruse..Grethe tarthys, And a sotilete.
b
- (1197) Nickname in LuSE 5567 : Yuone Bruntart.