Middle English Dictionary Entry
voutes n. plural
Entry Info
| Forms | voutes n. plural Also (?errors) votose, votase, faltes. |
| Etymology | Prob. from OF volte, voulte, vaulte omelet, crepe. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Cook. A dish consisting of marrow, dates, sugar, etc. baked between leaves of pastry, prob. a kind of turnover.
Associated quotations
- c1450 Yale 163 Cook.Recipes (Yale 163)p.78 : Voutes [vr. faltes]: Take gobets of mary & datys cut, sigure & poudyr of gynger…& safron & salt & make a foyle…& do hit out of the panne & than make anothir; Take of the forsayd stuf, & couch in almost as brod as the foyle…Close hit; late hit bake forth esyly…cut hit in pecys…& serve hit forth.
- (1474) Stonor1.144 : The second course…capons…venison, gelie, etc.; Item, vovtys.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)44 : To mak votose: To mak votase, tak gobettes of mary and dates cutt gret…and mak afoile…tak the for said stuf and couche ther in…and when it is bak, cutt it in peces eury pece ij enche square.