transsene that ele
traunche that sturgyon
vndertraunche yt purpos
tayme that crabbe
barbe that lopster
¶ Here hendeth the goodly termes.
THE BUTLER AND PANTER’S DUTIES.
[ ¶ Here begynneth Butler and Panter.]
Thou shalte be Butler and Panter all the fyrst yere / The Butler has 3 knives: and ye muste haue thre pantry knyues / 1. a squarer, 2. a chipper, 3. a smoother. one knyfe to square trenchoure loues / an other to be a [* Fol. A ii.] *chyppere / the thyrde shall be sharpe to make smothe trenchoures / than chyppe your soueraynes brede hote, and all other brede let it be a daye olde / housholde brede thre dayes olde / Trencher-bread must be 4 days old; trenchour brede foure dayes olde / than loke your salte by whyte and drye / the Salt-Planer of ivory; the planer made of Iuory, two inches brode & thre inches longe / & loke that youre salte seller lydde touche not the salte / table cloths kept in a chest, or hung on a perch. than loke your table clothes, towelles, and napkyns, be fayre folden in a cheste or hanged vpon a perche / than loke your table knyues be fayre pullysshed, & your spones clene / To broach a Pipe, have 2 augers, than loke ye haue two tarryours, a more & a lesse, & wyne cannelles of boxe made accordynge / funnels, and tubes, and pierce the Pipe 4 inches from the bottom. a sharpe gymlot & faucettes. And whan ye sette a pype on broche, do thus / set it foure fynger brede aboue ye nether chyme vpwardes aslaunte / and than shall ye lyes neuer a-ryse. seasons] Orig. seasous Always have ready fruits [Also loke ye haue] in all seasons butter, chese, apples, peres, nottes, plommes, grapes, dates, fygges & raysyns, compost, grene gynger and chardequynce. Serue fastynge butter, plommes, damesons, cheryes, and grapes, after mete, peres, nottes, strawberyes, hurtelberyes, and hard cheese. & hard chese. Also brandrels or pepyns with carawey in confetes. After souper, rost apples & peres, with blaunche poudre, & harde chese / Beware of cow cream. be ware of cowe creme, & of good strawberyes, hurtelberyes, Iouncat, for these wyll make your souerayne seke but he ete harde chese / Hard cheese is aperient, and harde chese hath these operacyons / it wyll kepe ye stomacke open / butter is holsome fyrst & last, keeps off poison. for it wyll do awaye all poysons / Milk and Junket mylke, creme, & Iouncat, close the Maw. they wyll close the mawe, & so dooth a posset / therfore ete harde chese, & drynke romney modon / beware of grene sallettes & rawe fruytes, for they wyll make your sourayne seke / [* Fol. A ii. b.] therfore set no mo-*che For food that sets your teeth on edge, eat an almond and hard cheese. by suche metes
as wyll set your tethe on edge; therfore ete an almonde & harde chese / but ete non moche chese without romney modon. Also yf dyuers drynkes, yf theyr fumosytees haue dyspleased your souerayne, A raw apple will cure indigestion. let hym ete a rawe apple, and ye fumosytees wyll cease: mesure is a mery mene & it be well vsed / abstynence is to be praysed whan god therwith is pleased. See every night that your wines don’t boil over or leak. Also take good hede of your wynes euery nyght with a candell, bothe rede wyne and swete wyne, & loke they reboyle nor leke not / & wasshe ye pype hedes euery nyght with colde water / & loke ye haue a chynchynge yron, addes, and lynen clothes, yf nede be / You’ll know their fermenting by their hissing. & yf the[y] reboyle, ye shall knowe by the hyssynge / therfore kepe an empty pype with ye lyes of coloured rose, & drawe the reboyled wyne to ye lyes, & it shal helpe it. Also yf your swete wyne pale, drawe it in to a romney vessell for lessynge.