Peper for Swans
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
The original text of the recipe is as follows:

Peper for swans. Take brown bread, toast it and soften it with water and vinegar and put it through [a strainer] and boil it and add nutmeg, cloves, melted sugar, cinnamon, mace, and wine with vinegar. Then you shall let it thicken well, amd when one serves it one also strews cinnamon over.

Related Recipes
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Materials
The original recipe calls for the following ingredients: [edit this list as appropriate]

pepper
swan
bread
vinegar
nutmeg
cloves
sugar
cinnamon
mace
wine

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Procedure
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Bibliography

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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
  <http://www.medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?einno:51>. Accessed on April 18, 2024, 5:01 pm.