GLOSSARIUM - M
GLOSSARY

Malmsey, malvasia, malvoisie: sweet Greek wine from Malvasia (now Monemvasia) in Morea (Medieval name for Peloponnesus). Sometimes used as a generic name for sweet wine. Today a special kind of sweet madeira.

Sauce to serve with chicken.

Mastic thyme: a herb (Thymus mastichina). Also called herb mastic or Spanish wood marjoram.

Mead, honey wine, nectar or ambrosia: drink made from water and honey, sometimes with wine (more).

Mead is widely believed to be the oldest fermented beverage known to man. There has been found cave paintings of mead, mead remains in Egyptian tombs, Greek and Roman burial sites, Celtic graves, and all over the world.

meelsuckere
(147)
meelsuycker
(5, 8, 86, 160)
meelsuyckere
(90, 135)

Suiker die afkomstig was van gebroken en vervolgens fijngemaakte suikerbroden. Vgl. poedersuiker. Zie ook: brootsuycker.

White sugar, scraped off sugar loafs, the form in which cane sugar was sold.

Harbour Porpoise.

Almond milk is an ingredient common in Medieval European recipes, particularly in Lenten dishes (milk, eggs, and meat broth all being forbidden in Lent).

Melkgerecht met spek. Nadat de melk tot schiften is gebracht door eieren op hoge temperatuur toe te voegen, laat men de wei eruit lopen zodat een dikke massa ontstaat. Deze wordt in een kaasvat onder druk gezet, waarna de dikke massa in stukken gesneden kan worden en vervolgens gebakken.

Special milk recipe. After milk is curdled by mixing in eggs at high temperature, the wey is strained to obtain a thick mass. This mass is pressed and cut in to pieces afterwards. These pieces can be baked.

Liquid mesure equal to 1 quart (more).

Saus met knoflook en salie die bij labberdaan gegeven werd in de vastentijd.

Sauce with garlic and sage, to be served with salted cold during Lent.

Kind of drink made of wine and eggs = eggnog (Italian: zabaglione, French: sabayon).

Soort brouwet (ragout) met varkens- of rundvlees en gevogelte.

Mortrew, (mortress), a kind of bruet [stew] with pig or beef and fowl.