Have three basins and three strain ing-bags to them; hang 'em on a perch. Let your ginger be well pared, hard, not wormeaten, (Colombyne is better look ye haue of pewtur basons oon, two, & thre, For to kepe in youre powdurs / also pe licour þerin to renne when pat nede be; to iij. basouns ye must haue iij bagges renners / so clepe ham we, 128 & hange þem on a perche, & looke pat Sure they be. Se þat youre gynger be welle y-pared / or hit to powder ye bete, and pat hit be hard / with-owt worme / bytynge, & good hete; For good gynger colombyne is best to drynke and ete; than Valadyne or 132 Gynger valadyne & maydelyñ ar not so holsom Maydelyne); your sticks of Cinnamon thin, hot and sweet; Canel is not so good. in mete. looke pat your stikkes of synamome be thyñ, bretille, & fayre in colewre, and in youre mowthe, Fresche, hoot, & swete / pat is best & sure, For canelle is not so good in pis crafte & cure. Cinnamon is hot 136 Synamome is hoot & dry in his worchynge while and dry, Cardamons are hot and moist. Take sugar or sugar candy, red wine, graines, ginger, pepper, he wille dure. Graynes of paradise,' hoote & moyst þey be: Sugre of .iij. cute2 / white / hoot & moyst in his propurte; Sugre Candy is best of alle, as y telle the, 140 and red wyne is whote & drye to tast, fele, & see, Graynes/gynger, longe pepur, & sugre / hoot & moyst in worchynge;3 ་ 1 Graines. Cardamomum, Graine de paradis. Baret. Graines of Paradise; or, the spice which we call, Graines.' Cotgrave. 2 Cuite, a seething, baking. Cot. Spices. Of those for the Percy Household, 1512, the yearly cost was £25 198. 7d. for Piper, Rasyns of Corens, Prones, Gynger, Mace, Clovvez, Sugour, Cinamom, Allmonds, Daytts, Nuttmuggs, Granes, Tornesole, Saunders, Powder of Annes, Rice, Coumfetts, Galyngga, Longe Piper, Blaynshe Powder, and Safferon, p. 19, 20. Household Book, ed. Bp. Percy. Synamome/Canelle / red wyne / hoot & drye in cinnamon, spice, þeire doynge; Turnesole is good & holsom for red wyne colow- and turnesole, and rynge: 144 alle pese ingredyentes, þey ar for ypocras makynge. Good son, youre powdurs so made, vche by pam put each powder self in bleddur laid, in a bladder by itself. hange sure youre perche & bagges pat þey from Hang your strain yow not brayd, & pat no bagge touche oper/do as y haue yow saide; 148 pe furst bag a galoun / alle oper of a potelle, vchon by oper teied. sped, Furst put in a basoun a galoun ij.or iij. wyne so red; þeñ put in youre powdurs, yf ye wille be and aftyr in-to pe rennere so lett hym be fed, 152 þañ in-to pe second bagge so wold it be ledde. loke pou take a pece in þyne hand euermore amonge, and assay it in by mouthe if hit be any thynge stronge, and if pow fele it welle bope with mouthe & tonge, 156 þañ put it in pe iij. vesselle / & tary not to longe. And pan 3iff pou feele it be not made parfete, þat it cast to moche gynger, with synamome alay pat hete; ing-bags so that they mayn't touch,-first bag and if hit haue synamome to moche, with gynger add cinnamon, of iij. cute; 160 pan if to moche sigure per be / by discressioun ye may wete. Thus, son, shaltow make parfite ypocras, as y the say; 1 Canel, spyce. Cinamomum, amomum. Promt. Parv. Canelle, our moderne Cannell or Cinnamom. Cot. (Named from its tube stalk?) 2 Tourne-soleil. Tornesole, Heliotropium. Cotgrave. Take bleue turnesole, and dip hit in wyne, that the wyne may catch the colour thereof, and colour the potage therwith. H. Ord., p. 465, and take red turnesole steped wel in wyne, and colour the potage with wyne, ibid. And then with a little Turnsole make it of a high murrey [mulberry] colour.' Markham's Houswife, p. 70. that ginger, or sugar, as wanted. Mind you keep tasting it. Strain it through bags of fine cloth, hooped at the mouth, the first holding a gallon, the others a pottle, and each with a basin under it. The Ypocras is made. Use the dregs in the kitchen. Put the Ypocras in a tight clean vessel, but with by mowthe to prove hit, / be pow tastynge alle-way; let hit renne in iiij. or vj bagges;1 gete þem, if pow may, 164 of bultelle clothe', if þy bagges be pe fynere withowten nay. Good son loke þy bagges be hoopid at pe mothe a-bove, be surere mayst pow put in þy wyne vn-to þy behoue, þe furst bag of a galoun / alle oper of a potelle to prove; 168 hange by bagges sure by pe hoopis; do so for my loue; And vndur euery bagge, good soñ, a basoun clere & bryght; and now is þe ypocras made / for to plese many a wight. pe draff of pe spicery/is good for Sewes in kychyn dizt; 172 and 3iff pow cast hit awey, pow dost by mastir no rizt. Now, good son, þyne ypocras is made parfite & welle; y wold pan ye put it in staunche & a clene vesselle, and pe mouthe per-off y-stopped euer more wisely & felle, and serve it with 176 and serue hit forth with wafurs bope in chambur wafers. The Buttery. Keep all cups, &c., clean. Don't serve ale till it's five days old. & Celle. The botery. Thy cuppes / by pottes, pou se be clene bope with-in & owt ; [T]hyne ale .v. dayes old er þow serue it abowt, 1 Manche: f. A sleeue; also a long narrow bag (such as Hypocras is made in). Cotgrave. 2 boulting or straining cloth. 'ij bulteclothes.' Status Domus de Fynchall, A.D. 1360. Dom. Arch. v. 1, p. 136, note f. for ale pat is newe is wastable with-owten dowt: 180 And looke pat alle þynge be pure & clene þat ye go abowt. Be fayre of answere/redy to serue / and also gen- Be civil and telle of chere, and þañ men wille sey 'pere gothe a gentille officere.' obliging, be ware þat ye geue no persone palled' drynke, for and give no one feere 184 hit my3t brynge many a man in dissese / durynge many a zere. stale drink. [Fol. 173 b.] To lay the Cloth, Son, Wipe the table. þañ lay a clothe on pe table / a cowche2 it is Put a cloth on it called & said: (a cowche); 188 take þy felow oon ende perof/ & pou pat othere you take one end, that brayde, your mate the other; Than draw streight by clothe, & ley þe bouзt3 cñ þе lay the fold of the vttur egge of pe table, take þe vpper part / & let hyt hange evyñ able: second cloth (?) on the outer edge of the table, þann take pe .iij. clothe, & ley the bouзt on pe that of the third Inner side plesable, 192 and ley estate with the vpper part, pe brede of half fote is greable. cloth (?) on the inner. Cover by cuppeborde of thy ewery with the towelle Cover your cup of diapery ; take a towelle abowt thy nekke / for þat is curtesy, board with a diaper towel, put one round your neck, one lay þat oon side of pe towaile on by lift arme side on your left manerly, 1 Stale, dead. Pallyd, as drynke (palled, as ale). Emortuus. P. Parv. See extract from A. Borde in notes at end. 'Couche 2 See Dict. de L'Academie, p. 422, col. 2, ed. 1835. se dit aussi de Toute substance qui est étendue, appliquée sur une autre, de manière à la couvrir. Revêtir un mur d'une couche de plâtre, de mortier, &c.' 3 Fr. repli: m. A fould, plait, or bought. Cotgrave. cf. Bow, bend. arin with your sovereign's napkin; on that, eight loaves to eat, and three or four trencher loaves: in your left hand the salt-cellar. In your right hand, spoons and knives. Put the Salt on the right of your lord; on its left, a trencher or two; on their left, a knife, then white rolls, [a space in the MS.] and beside them a spoon folded in a napkin. Cover all up. At the other end set a Salt and two trenchers. [+ ? MS.] How to wrap up your lord's bread in a stately way. Cut your loaves all equal. Take a towel two and a half yards 196 an on þe same arme ley by soueraignes napkyñ honestly; þañ lay on þat arme viij. louys bred / with iij. or iiij. trenchere lovis ; Take pat oo ende of þy towaile / in þy lift hand, as þe maner is, and pe salt Sellere in þe same hand, looke þat ye do this; 200 pat oper ende of pe towaile / in rizt hand with spones & knyffes y-wis; Set youre salt on pe right side / where sittes youre soverayne, on þe lyfft Side of youre salt / sett youre trencher oon & twayne, on pe lifft side of your trenchoure lay youre knyffe synguler & playñ; 204 and on þe . . .* side of youre knyffes / oon by oñ ... þe white payne; youre spone vpрoñ a napkyñ fayre / 3et foldeñ wold he be, besides pe bred it wold be laid, soñ, y telle the: Cover your spone / napkyñ, trencher, & knyff, þat no mañ hem se. 208 at þe oper ende of pe table / a salt with ij. trench ers sett ye. Sir,† 3eff pow wilt wrappe by soueraynes bred stately, Thow must square & proporcioun by bred clene & evenly, and pat no loof ne bunne be more þañ oper proporcionly, 212 and so shaltow make by wrappe for þy master manerly; pañ take a towaile of Raynes,' of ij. yardes and |