[220.] Cullis (in Cookery) a strained Liquor made of any sort of dress’d Meat, or other things pounded in a Mortar, and pass’d thro’ a Hair-sieve: These Cullises are usually pour’d upon Messes, and into hot Pies, a little before they are serv’d up to Table. Phillips. See also the recipe for making a coleise of a cocke or capon, from the Haven of Health, in Nares. Fr. Coulis: m. A cullis, or broth of boiled meat strained; fit for a sicke, or weake bodie. Cotgrave.
[221.] Shrimps are of two sorts, the one crookbacked, the other straitbacked: the first sort is called of Frenchmen Caramots de la santé, healthful shrimps; because they recover sick and consumed persons; of all other they are most nimble, witty, and skipping, and of best juice. Muffett, p. 167. In cooking them, he directs them to be “unscaled, to vent the windiness which is in them, being sodden with their scales; whereof lust and disposition to venery might arise,” p. 168.
[222.] See the recipe for “Creme of Almonde Mylk,” Household Ordinances, p. 447.
[223.] “Mortrewes of Fysshe,” H. Ord. p. 469; “Mortrews of fysshe,” L. C. C. p. 19.
[224.] See “Rys Lumbarde,” H. Ord. p. 438, l. 3, ‘and if thow wilt have hit stondynge, take rawe ȝolkes of egges,’ &c.
[225.] See the [Recipe] at the end of this volume.
[226.] ‘Let no fish be sodden or eaten without salt, pepper, wine, onions or hot spices; for all fish (compared with flesh) is cold and moist, of little nourishment, engendring watrish and thin blood.’ Muffett, p. 146, with a curious continuation. Hoc Sinapium, Ance. mustarde.
Salgia, sirpillum, piper, alia, sal, petrocillum,
Ex hiis sit salsa, non est sentencia falsa.
15th cent. Pict. Vocab. in Wright’s Voc. p. 267, col. 1.