CRETONNEE of New Peas or new beans
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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CRETONNEE of New Peas or new beans. Cook them almost to a puree, then remove from the liquid, and take fresh cow's milk, and tell her who sells it to you that she will be in trouble if she has added water to it, for very often they extend their milk thus, and if it is not quite fresh or has water in it, it will turn, And first boil this milk before you put anything in it, for it still could turn: then first grind ginger to give appetite, and saffron to yellow: it is said that if you want to make a liaison with egg-yolks poured gently in from above, these yolks will yellow it enough and also make the liaison, but milk curdles quicker with egg-yolks than with a liaison of bread and with saffron to color it, And for this purpose, if you use bread, it should be white unleavened bread, and moisten it in a bowl with milk or meat stock, then grind and put through a sieve; and when your bread is sieved and your spices have not been sieved, put it all to boil with your peas; and when it is all cooked, then add your milk and saffron. You can make still another liaison, which is with the same peas or beans ground then strained; use whichever you please. As for liaison with egg-yolks, they must be beaten, strained through a sieve, and poured slowly from above into the milk,after it has boiled well and has been drawn to the back of the fire with the new peas or new beans and spices, The surest way is to take a little of the milk, and mix with the eggs in the bowl, and then a little more, and again, until the yolks are well mixed with a spoon and plenty of milk, then put into the pot which is away from the fire, and the soup will not curdle. And if the soup is thick, thin with a little meat stock. This done, you should have quartered chicks, veal, or small goose cooked then fried, and in each bowl put two or three morsels and the soup over them,

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Chekyns in cretene. Take cow mylke, lye hit anone With flowre, or ellis with amydone. Fors hit with galyngale and gode gyngere, With canel and comyn, alle in fere, Coloure hit with safron þo. Þe chekyns by hom selfe þo sethe þer to, Hew hom in quarteres and lay hom inne, Boyle hom up with alle, no more ne mynne. But seson hit with sugur suete, And serve hom forthe for þay ben sete []

To mak cratonnes tak chekins and sethe them fley them and quarter them then grind pepper bred and comyne and boile the chekins in mylk then swinge eggs flour and hony togedure and put faire grece in a possuet and cast in the bater and stirr it till it be in many and serue it as friturs. []

Cretone of new beans. Just as for peas. []

Cretone of new peas. Cook them almost to mush, drain them, and fry them in lard. Boil cow's milk for an instant and soak your bread in the milk. Crush ginger and saffron, steep in the milk, and boil. Take chickens cooked in water, quarter them, fry them, and add them to the milk to boil. Withdraw it to the back of the fire and thread in plenty of egg yolks. []

CRETONNEE on a fish day; fry tench, pike, sole or dab. []

Crotoun. XX.III. Take the offal of Capouns oþer of oþere briddes. make hem clene and parboile hem. take hem up and dyce hem. take swete cowe mylke and cast þerinne. and lat it boile. take Payndemayn and of þe self mylke and drawe thurgh a cloth and cast it in a pot and lat it seeþ, take ayren ysode. hewe the white and cast þerto, and alye the sewe with zolkes of ayren rawe. colour it with safron. take the zolkes and fry hem and florish hem þerwith and with powdour douce. []

.lix. Cruton. Tak the offal of capouns other of other bryddes, make hem clene & perboyle hem, tak hem up & dyce hem, tak swete cow mylke & cast therinne & lat hit boyle, tak payndemayn & of the self mylk & drawe thorowe a cloth & cast it in a pot, and lat it seeth, take ayroun y sode, hewe the white & cast ther to, and lye the sewe with yolkes of ayroun raw, colour hit with safroun, tak the yolkes & frye hem & florysche hem therwith and poudour douce. []

XXIV - FOR TO MAKE CRAYTOUN. Tak checonys and schald hem and seth hem and grvnd gyngen' other pepyr and comyn and temper it up wyth god mylk and do the checonys theryn and boyle hem and serve yt forthe. []

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Materials
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peas
beans
beef
milk
ginger
saffron
eggs
yolks
bread
chicken
veal
goose

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