Jean M. Roberts : The Book's Delight

  For to make flaumpeyns Here is an interesting recipe from The Forme of Cury , a 14 th century manuscript,  for what sounds like a pork pie. Like most of the recipes from this cookbook, there is quite a combination of ingredients, like pork and figs, but it sounds pretty good. Here is the original recipe. Remember when you’re reading the þ is a ‘th’ sound. Take and clene pork and boile it tendre. Þenne hewe it small and bray it smal in a morter. Take fyges and boil hem tender in smale ale. And bray hem and tendre chese þerwith. Þenne waisthe hem in water and þene lyes hem alle togider with ayrenn, þenne take powdour of pepper or els powdour marchannt and ayrenn and a porcioun of safroun and salt. Þenne take blank sugur, eyrenn and flour and make a past wit a roller, þene make þerof smale pelettes and fry hem broun in clene grece and set hem aside. Þenne make of þat oo þer deel of þat past long coffyns and do þat comade þerin and close hem faire with a counter and py...