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-dendele[1] ā powdo᷑ gyngen᷒ and ſtere[2] it togd til it bigynne to thik and caſt it on a wete[3] table. leſh it and sūe it forth fryed mete on fleſsh day᷒ or on fyſshe dayes.

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VIII.

Lete Lardes.[4]

Take ꝑſel and grynde with a Cowe mylk, medle it with ayren̄ and lard ydyced take mylke af þͭ þͧ haſt to done[5] and myng[6] þ᷒with. and make þ᷒of dyūſe colours. If þͧ wolt have zelow, do þ᷒to ſafron̄ and no ꝑsel. If þͧ wolt have it white⹎ nonþ᷒ ꝑſel ne ſafron̄ but do þ᷒to amydon̄. If þͧ wilt have rede do þ᷒to ſandres. If þou wilt have pownas[7] do þ᷒to turneſole.[8] If þͧ wilt have blak do þ᷒to blode yſode and fryed. and ſet on the fy ī as many veſſels as þͧ haſt colours þerto

  1. thriddendele. Third part, perhaps, of brede, i.e. of bread, may be caſually omitted here. V. Gloſſ.
  2. ſtere. ſtir.
  3. wete. wet.
  4. Lete Lardes. Lards in form of Dice are noticed in the proceſs. See Lel Coll. VI. p. 5. Lete is the Fr. Lait, milk. V. Nº 81. or Brit. Llaeth. Hence, perhaps, Lethe Cpyrus and Lethe Rube. Lel. Coll. IV. p. 227. But VI. p. , it is Leche.
  5. to done. i.e. done.
  6. myng. mix.
  7. pownas. Qu.
  8. turneſole. Not the flower Heliotrope, but a drug. Northumb. Book, p. 3. 19. I ſuppoſe it to be Turmeric. V. Brooke's Nat. Hiſt of Vegetables, p. 9. where it is uſed both in victuals and for dying.