[88.] A sort of gristle, the tendon of the neck. Germ. flachse, Brockett. And see Wheatley’s Dict. of Reduplicated Words.
[89.] The ‘canelle boon’ between the hind legs must be the pelvis, or pelvic arch, or else the ilium or haunch-bone: and in cutting up the rabbit many good carvers customarily disjoint the haunch-bones before helping any one to the rump. Atkinson.
[90.] Rabet, yonge conye, Cunicellus. P. Parv. ‘The Conie beareth her Rabettes xxx dayes, and then kindeleth, and then she must be bucked againe, for els she will eate vp hir Rabets. 1575. Geo. Turbervile, The Booke of Venerie, p. 178, ch. 63.’ —H. H. Gibbs.
[91.] slices, or rather strips.
[92.] board-cloth, table-cloth.
[93.] Part IV. of Liber Cure Cocorum, p. 38-42, is ‘of bakun mete.’ On Dishes and Courses generally, see Randle Holme, Bk. III. Chap. III. p. 77-86.
[94.] rere a cofyn of flowre so fre. L. C. C., p. 38, [l. 8.]The crust of a raised pie.
[95.] for thin; [see line 486].
[96.] ? A dish of batter somewhat like our Yorkshire Pudding; not the Crustade or pie of chickens, pigeons, and small birds of the Household Ordinances, p. 442, and Crustate of flesshe of Liber Cure, p. 40.
[97.] ? buche de bois. A logge, backe stocke, or great billet. Cot. I suppose the buche to refer to the manner of checkering the custard, buche-wise, and not to be a dish. Venison is ‘chekkid,’ l. 388-9. This rendering is confirmed by The Boke of Keruynge’s “Custarde, cheke them inch square” (in Keruynge of Flesshe). Another possible rendering of buche as a dish of batter or the like, seems probable from the ‘Bouce Jane, a dish in Ancient Cookery’ (Wright’s Provl. Dicty.), but the recipe for it in Household Ordinances, p. 431, shows that it was a stew, which could not be checkered or squared. It consisted of milk boiled with chopped herbs, half-roasted chickens or capons cut into pieces, ‘pynes and raysynges of corance,’ all boiled together. In Household Ordinances, p. 162-4, Bouche, or Bouche of court, is used for allowance. The ‘Knights and others of the King’s Councell,’ &c., had each ‘for their Bouch in the morning one chet loafe, one manchet, one gallon of ale; for afternoone, one manchett, one gallon of ale; for after supper, one manchett, &c.’