Flaumpens

Pork and cheese pie. The name may be associated with 'flaumpaump', meaning an odd mixture.

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Original Receipt in 'The Forme of Cury' by the Chief Master-Cook of King Richard II, c1390 (Cury 1390)

FLAUMPENS
Take fat Pork salted, scrape it clean, grynde it small. Grynde cheese & do thereto with sugur and good powders. Make a coffyn [casing] of an inch deep and do this forcemeat therin, make a thin foile of good paste & carve out theroff small poyntes, fry them in forcemeat. & bake it up &c

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