Dew water from a capon or chicken
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Introduction
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The Source Recipe
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Dew water from a capon or chicken. Put your chicken or capon (completely dry) in a brand new earthenware pot that is enamelled and very clean, cover the pot well so that nothing can escape from it, put your pot in a pan of water, and boil it until your capon is cooked in the pot. Remove your capon, and remove from the pot the water that came from the completely dry (as was said) capon, and give this to the invalid because it is very good for fortifying, and all the body takes substance from it.



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For henne in brothe. Take, sethe þy henne and kut her wele On gobbettes, save alrons and þe pestle. Sethe thritté egges harde also, And hakke þe white and cast þer to In pot, with mynsud onyonus gode. First stepe þy brede of whete by þe rode, In þe same brothe besyde to lye Þy sewe, in put powder of peper þer by Of clowes, of gynger þer to þou take, Coloure hit with safroune for goddes sake. Do fyve 3olkes in on disshe, þenne Thre gobbettis of flesshe als of þat henne. Poure on þat sewe þat first was dy3t, To serve in sale by ful gode ry3t. []

CAPON WATER. Put your capon or hen in a good clean pot which is newly tinned and well covered, so that nothing can escape, and put your pot in a pan full of water and boil until the capon or hen in the pot is cooked; then take out the capon or hen, and give the liquid left in the pot by the fowl to a sick person to drink. []

To mak chekins in brothe tak and skald your chekins then tak parsly saige and other erbes and grapes and put it in the chekins and sethe them in good brothe and colour the brothe with saffron cast on pouder douce and salt it and serue it. []

VI - Broth of chickens (pullets). If you want to make broth of chickens, take chickens and let them simmer, take almonds skinned and pounded and distemper with the broth of the chicken, and rose water and verjuice, and temper everything together. And then take cinnamon, ginger and cloves half ground, and half cut small, and put into this broth and let everything boil together. And then when it goes to the table, put the chickens into the broth, and see that it is good and hot. When you serve, put the sugar above the bowl and it will be a good dish. []

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Materials
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chicken


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