Original Receipt in the 15th Century 'Austin Manuscripts' (Austin 1440)Flathonys. Take milk, and yolkes of egges, and ale, and drawe them through a straynour, with white sugur or blak; and melt faire butter, and put thereto salt, and make faire coffyns, and put them into a nowne [an oven] til thei be a little hard; then take a pile, and a diss fastned there-on, and fi the coffyns therewit of the seid stuffe and late them bake a while. And then take them oute, and serve them forthe, and caste sugur ynog on them.