GELE [1] OF FYSSH. C. I.
Take Tenches, pykes [2], eelys, turbut and plays [3], kerue hem to pecys. scalde hem & waische hem clene. drye hem with a cloth do hem in a panne do þerto half vyneger & half wyne & seeþ it wel. & take the Fysshe and pike it clene, cole the broth thurgh a cloth into a erthen panne. do þerto powdour of pep and safroun ynowh. lat it seeþ and skym it wel whan it is ysode dof [4] grees clene, cowche fisshes on chargeours & cole the sewe thorow a cloth onoward & serue it forth.
[1] Gele. Jelly. Gelee, Contents here and in the next Recipe.
Gely, Ms. Ed. No. 55, which presents us with much the same
prescription.
[2] It is commonly thought this fish was not extant in England till
the reign of H. VIII.; but see No. 107. 109. 114. So Lucys, or Tenchis,
Ms. Ed. II 1. 3. Pygus or Tenchis, II. 2. Pikys, 33 Chaucer, v. Luce;
and Lel. Coll. IV. p. 226. VI. p. 1. 5. Luce salt. Ibid. p. 6. Mr.
Topham's Ms. written about 1230, mentions Lupos aquaticos five
Luceas amongst the fish which the fishmonger was to have in his shop.
They were the arms of the Lucy family so early as Edw. I. See also
Pennant's Zool. III. p. 280, 410.
[3] Plays. Plaise, the fish.
[4] Dof, i. e. do of.
GELE OF FLESSH. C. II.
Take swyner feet & snowter and the eerys [1]. capouns. connynges calues fete. & wiasche hem clene. & do hem to seeþ in the þriddel [2] of wyne & vyneger and water and make forth as bifore.
[1] Eerys. Ears. [2] Thriddel. V. ad No. 67.
CHYSANNE [1]. C. III.
Take Roches. hole Tenches and plays & sinyte hem to gobettes. fry hem in oyle blaunche almaundes. fry hem & cast wyne & of vyneger þer pridde part þerwith fyges drawen & do þerto powdour fort and salt. boile it. lay the Fisshe in an erthen panne cast the sewe þerto. seeþ oynouns ymynced & cast þerinne. kepe hit and ete it colde.
[1] Chysanne. Qu.