Black Pepper [Sauce]
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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Black Pepper [Sauce]. Crush ginger, burnt bread and pepper, steep in vinegar and verjuice, and boil. (BN manuscript, p. 34.)

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BLACK PEPPER. Take a clove and a little pepper, ginger, and grind very fine: then grind toasted bread soaked in a little liquid from the meat or in a little cabbage-water which is better, then boil in an iron pan, and when boiling add vinegar; then put in a pot on the fire to keep hot.

Item, some add cinnamon to it. []

LIX - Pepper sauce that is genuine. If you want to make a pepper sauce for each meat or for fish, take white flour and honey vinegar and temper enough that it is soft and of the broth of the meat or fish that is fat and put it to boil with spices that are enough and if you want yellow add saffron and if you want white do not add it. []

To make a pepper sauce. Take one quarter of a pound of cinnamon, crushed, one eighth of a pound of ginger, one ounce cloves, 1/2 ounce galanga and three quarters (liquid measure) of vinegar. []

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Materials
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pepper
ginger
bread
vinegar
verjuice

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Procedure
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Bibliography

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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
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Searchable index of "". Medieval Cookery.
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