Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in early England / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

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1868. [Reprinted 1894, 1904]
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    832 Mustard is' / is inetest yvith alle mane?- salt herynge, Salt fysclie, salt Congur, samou?2, ^y^th sparlynge,^ Salt ele, salt makerelle, & also witlie merlynge.^ Vynegur is good to salt purpose & torrentyne/ 836 Salt sturgeon, salt sw}Td-fysclie savery & fyne. Salt Thurlepolle, salt whale,^ is good w^t/i egre Avyne, withe powdur put ]>er-on shalle cawse oon welle to dyne. Playce wit/i wyne; & pike withe his refifett; moist, of little nourishment, engendring watrish and thin blood.’ Muffett, p. 146, with a curious continuation. Hoc Sinapium, mustarde. Salgia, sirpillum, piper, alia, sal, petrocillnm. Ex hiis sit salsa, non est sentencia falsa. loth cent. Piet. Yocab. in Wright’s Voc. p. 267, col. 1. 1 ? is repeated by mistake. - Spurlings are but broad Sprats, taken chiefly upon our Northern coast; which being drest and pickled as Anchovaes be in Provence, rather surpass them than come behind them in taste and goodness. . . As for Eed Sprats and Spurlings, I vouchsafe them not the name of any wholesome nourishment, or rather of no nourishment at all; commending them for nothing, but that they are bawdes to enforce appetite, and serve well the poor mans turn to quench hunger. Muffett, p. 169. * A Whiting, a Merling, Fr. Merlan. ‘ Merling : A Stoch-Jish, or Marling, else Merling; in Latine Marlanus and Marlangus.’ E. Holme, p. 333, col. 1. ^ After searching all the Dictionaries and Glossaries I could get hold of in the Museum for this Torrentyne, which was the plague of my life for six weeks, I had recourse to Dr Gunther. He searched Eondelet and Belon in vain for the word, and then suggested Aldrovanui as the last resource. In the De Piscibiis, Lib. V., I accordingly found (where he treats of Trout), “ Scoppa, gi’a?n- maticus Italus, Torentinam nominat, rectius Torroitinam vocaturus, k torrentibus nimirum: in his n[ominatim] & riuis montanis abundat.” (ed. 1644, cum indice copiosissimo.) * Whales flesh is the hardest of all other, and unusuall to be eaten of our Countrymen, no not when they are very young and tenderest ; yet the livers of Whales, Sturgeons, and Dolphins smell like violets, taste most pleasantly being salted, and give competent nourishment, as Cardan writeth. Muffett, p. 173, ed. Bcnnet, 1665. Mustard for salt herring, conger, mackerel, &c. Vinegar for salt porpoise, swordfish, &c. Sour wine for whale, with powder. Wiue for plaice.