[l. 533.] Powdered is contrasted with fresh in Household Ordinances: ‘In beef daily or moton, fresh, or elles all poudred is more availe, 5d.’ H. Ord. p. 46. In Muffett (p. 173) it means pickled, ‘As Porpesses must be baked while they are new, so Tunny is never good till it have been long pouldred with salt, vinegar, coriander, and hot spices.’ In p. 154 it may be either salt or pickled; ‘Horne-beaks are ever lean (as some think) because they are ever fighting; yet are they good and tender, whether they be eaten fresh or poudred.’ Powdered, says Nicolas, meant sprinkled over, and “powdered beef” i.e. beef sprinkled with salt, is still in use. Privy Purse expenses of Elizabeth of Yorke, &c., p. 254, col. 1. See [note to l. 378], [689], here.
[l. 535-688.] Chaudoun. MS. Harl. 1735, fol. 18, gives this Recipe. ‘¶ Chaudon sauz of swannes. ¶ Tak ye issu of ye swannes, & wasche hem wel, skoure ye guttys with salt, sethz al to-gidre. Tak of ye fleysche; hewe it smal, & ye guttys with alle. Tak bred, gyngere & galingale, Canel, grynd it & tempre it vp with bred; colour it with blood ore with brent bred, seson it vp with a lytyl vinegre; welle it al to-gydere.’ And see the Chaudoun potage of Pygys, fol. 19, or p. 37.
[l. 540.] Crane, the Common, Crus cinerea, Y. ii. 530.
[l. 540.] Egret, or Great White Heron, Ardea alba Y. ii. 549. (Buff-coloured, Buff-backed, and Little Egret, are the varieties.)
[l. 540.] Hernshaw or Common Heron, Ardea cinerea. Y. ii. 537 (nine other varieties).
[l. 541.] Plover, the Great (Norfolk Plover and Stone Curlew), Ædicnemus crepitans, Y. ii. 465 (10 other varieties).
[l. 541.] Curlew the Common, Numenius arquata, Y. ii. 610 (there are other varieties).
[l. 542.] Bustard, the Great, Otis tarda, Y. ii. 428; the Little (rare here) ii. 452.
[l. 542.] Shoveler (blue-winged, or Broad-Bill), Anas clypeata, Y. iii. 247. Snipe, the Common, Scolopax gallinago, Y. iii. 38 (11 other sorts).
[l. 543.] Woodcock, Scolopax rusticola, Y. iii. 1.