Take Tenches, pykes [2], eelys, turbut and plays [3], kerue hem to
pecys. scalde hem & waische hem clene. drye hem with a cloth do hem
in a panne do þerto half vyneger & half wyne & seeþ it wel. & take
the Fysshe and pike it clene, cole the broth thurgh a cloth into a
erthen panne. do þerto powdour of pep and safroun ynowh. lat it
seeþ and skym it wel whan it is ysode dof [4] grees clene, cowche
fisshes on chargeours & cole the sewe thorow a cloth onoward
& serue it forth.
[1] Gele. Jelly. _Gelee_, Contents here and in the next Recipe.
_Gely_, Ms. Ed. No. 55, which presents us with much the same
prescription.
[2] It is commonly thought this fish was not extant in England till
the reign of H. VIII.; but see No. 107. 109. 114. So Lucys, or Tenchis,
Ms. Ed. II 1. 3. Pygus or Tenchis, II. 2. Pikys, 33 Chaucer, v. Luce;
and Lel. Coll. IV. p. 226. VI. p. 1. 5. _Luce salt_. Ibid. p. 6. Mr.
Topham's Ms. written about 1230, mentions _Lupos aquaticos five
Luceas_ amongst the fish which the fishmonger was to have in his shop.
They were the arms of the Lucy family so early as Edw. I. See also
Pennant's Zool. III. p. 280, 410.
[3] Plays. Plaise, the fish.
[4] Dof, i. e. do of.