Middle English Dictionary Entry
crustāde n.
Entry Info
Forms | crustāde n. Also crustate, crustard, custade, custard. |
Etymology | AF, ult. Prov. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. cruste.
1.
Any dish baked in a crust; a pie or patty (of meat, fish, eggs, etc.).
Associated quotations
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.70 : Crustardes of Flessh. Take..smale briddes, smyte hem in gobettes..make a crust in a trap..& cowche þe flessh þerinne..breke ayren and wryng hem..helde it uppon the flessh..& bake it wel.. Crustardes of Fysshe.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)p.71 : Crustardes of Eerbis on fyssh Day..make a crust in a trap and do þe fyssh þerinne..whan it is half ybake do þe sewe þerto & bake it up.
- ?c1425 Arun.Cook.Recipes (Arun 334)452 : Let bake hom as thow woldes bake..crustades.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)50 : Crustade. Take Vele..make fayre cofyns.
- c1450(c1353) Winner & W.(Add 31042)353 : Custadis swete.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)74 : Custard lumbarde.
- (1452) Feast Neville(1) (Tit B.11)88 : Custad ryalle.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.40 : Crustate of flesshe.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)492 : Custard.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)802 : Custade Costable.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)54 : Custad opyne.
- ?a1500 Banquet Menus (Add 18752)90 : Crustades blancz, bake.