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bunnyjadwiga ([personal profile] bunnyjadwiga) wrote2005-01-21 12:15 pm

Middle Dutch Sage sauce recipes

From a translation of a Middle Dutch manuscript, Manuscript KANTL Gent 15, no title:
translation by Christianne Muusers at http://www.coquinaria.nl/kooktekst/Introduction.htm
Sage sauce recipes:

1.47. To make a sauce with sage.
Strain the brayed juice of the sage with some white bread. Add a little sugar, some ginger, a little vinegar and wine. Then pour the sauce on brawn.

1.48. To make a sauce with potherbs.
Bray toasted white bread, sage, parsley, mint and pepper. Strain this together through [a sieve] with vinegar.

1.29. Another fine garlic sauce.
Sage, salt, pepper, garlic and wine, parsley.

1.57. Sauce for geese.
Take dried white bread, salt, sage, garlic, pepper, parsley. Bray them [and strain them] through [a sieve] with wine.