reference: huswife-1594

Pie filled with boiled orange peel in a syrup of reduced orange juice with sugar (Huswife 1594)

A cow's milk cheese, yellow and strongly flavoured, made in very thin (c1ins) rounds, known at least since Huswife 1594.

A sauce made with the sweet Spanish 'Bastardo' wine (Huswife 1594, etc)

Beer boiled with egg, sweet spices and butter. Known at least since the 16Cent it occasionally pops up right into modern times. As recently as 1936 we learn tha...

A general term for thickened drinks. Typically wine, milk or ale thickened with flour, oatmeal or egg, sweetened and spiced.

Chicken cooked in mutton bone marrow broth with whole lettuce, spices, pepper and a very little sugar. Served on bread sops (AW 1591, Huswife 1594)

'Devonshire Dairy' milk cart at Greenwich, 1884

The word 'coffin' originally just meant 'casing' and appears in many English cookbooks before about 1600 as the word for a pie crust. See; Battaglia Pie, Blackb...

Sweet potato with fruit and sparrow brains. The phrase "to provoke courage" is almost certainly a euphamism for presumed aphrodisiac qualities.

A tiny spherical titbit (OED). A Whet, or Subtelty. Early references are to spheres of light sweetened pastry, a later receipt (Huswife 1594) is of minced mutto...

Tiny pasties, made from a sheet of very thin paste "of the bignesse of your hand", edges damped and folded over fillings such as bone marrow with ginger or peel...

Rabbit with a spiced and sweetened parsley bread sauce.

A highly spiced, medicinal, wine. Commonplace from the 13th to 18th Centuries. The precursor of Tonic Wine. Compare with: Clary and Piment

Oatmeal soaked in cream with suet, whole egg and spices in a skin, boiled (Huswife 1594)

(Also recorded as: manged, maunchett, maynche, maynchett, mayned, mengyd, meyned, manchete, manchett, manchet, mainchet, mancheat, mancheate, manched, manchuet,...

A highly-decorated disc of marzipan, typically about 1in thick, supported on a wafer or thin cake base. Since its heyday in the 16th and 17th centuries it seems...

Medlars

Tiny, single-mouthful pie cases filled with spiced fruit (prunes, dates, and currants) topped with chopped boiled oyster meat in verjuice and butter (Huswife 15...

"To bake Oysters shels and all" .. a closed pie containing oysters in their shells with cloves and butter (Huswife 1594, Wooley 1672, etc)

A type of whet, or appetiser. A Kickshaw

Duck, or chicken, with citrus sauce is an older English dish than might be thought, first appearing in AW 1591 as "To boyle a Capon with Orenges or Lemmons".

An early version of Rice Pudding, generally made with milk and almonds, highly flavoured.

Cooked rosehips in an open pastry case.

Soft cheese made using rennet (Huswife 1594)

(Not to be confused with the beef dish 'Sanders or Saunders')

"Industrious and intelligent boys who live in the country, are mostly well up in the cunning art of catching small birds ... pluck them free from feathers, cut ...

A sweet, snow-like, froth as an accompaniment to sweet deserts. Appears repeatedly in cookbooks until the end of the 19th Century.

Boiled spinach bound with egg and breadcrumbs, fried.

Tripe boiled in mutton broth with spinach and lettuce, served on bread sops. Although the receipt here is very ancient (Huswife 1594) tripe alongside spinach ge...

A drink made from water, barley with herbs, aniseed and liquorice (Huswife 1594)

A sort of hybrid mincemeat-lattice/omelette. Cooked dates, prunes, currant and beef marrow with sugar and cinnamon spread on a thin omelette made with yolks and...

Wild boar is roasted, or treated as for other pork.