reference: langland-1390

Opaque, sweet, white set-jelly desert, most traditionally flavoured with almonds but now often prepared with other fruit flavourings and coloured pale pink.

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

General term for any thin piece of meat, whether natural or reformed. Sometimes a synonym for 'bacon rasher', known as far back as as Langland 1390 (Digby 1669,...

The sprouting stalks of a non-bulbing variety of onion Allium fistulosum. Described in the OED as "in appearance intermediate between the onion and the leek. No...

A soup so thick that you can literally 'stand a spoon up in it'.

A type of whet, or appetiser. A Kickshaw

Very light thin crisp cake of white wheatflour, baked between wafer-irons. Wafers were formerly often eaten with wine, now chiefly with ices, or as the support ...

The term appears repeatedly in old cookbooks, including the Austin Manuscripts of 1440 and The Forme of Cury is found in Chaucer, Langland 1390 and dozens of ot...