Original Receipt in the verse cookery book 'Liber Cure Cocorum', 1430 (Liber Cure 1430);Sawce madame.
Take sawge, persoly, ysope, saveray,
Onyons gode, peres, garlek, I say,
And grapes; go fille thy gose then
And sew thy hole, no grece oute renne;
Lay hur to fyre and rost hyr browne,
And kepe tho grece that falles doune.
Take galingale and tho grece that renne,
Do it in posnet, as I the kenne;
Whenne tho gose is rostyd, take hir away,
Smyte hir in pesys, I the pray;
that is within, thou schalle take oute,
Kest in thy posnet with outene doute;
wif it is thyke do therto wyne,
And powder of galingale that is fyne,
And powder dowce and salt also;
Boyle alle togeder er thou fyr go,
In a dysshe thy gose thou close
the sawce abofe, as I suppose.