Doucettes

These recipes all contain some sort of meat or marrow. For a recipe for custard pies without meat, see Doucetes.

Enseignements qui enseingnent a apareillier toutes manieres de viandes, (France, ca. 1300 - D. Myers, trans.)

For white douchet - If you want to make white douchet, take a hen and cook it in water, then skim off the crest, and take the white of the hen and grind well, then take yolks of the eggs cooked in fire and set to boil with a little amidon. Also it can be made with pike or perch. Then it will be fish.

Two Fifteenth Century Cookery Books, 1430

.xxxvij. Doucettes.—Take Porke, & hakke it smal, & Eyroun y-mellyd to-gederys, & a lytel Milke, & melle hem to-gederys with Hony & Pepir, & bake hem in a cofyn, & serue forth.

Pork Doucetty. Take pork, and hack it small, and eyroun y-mellyd together, and a little milk, and melle him together with honey and pepper, and bake him in a coffin, and serve forth.

.xxxviij. Doucettes a-forcyd.—Take Almaunde Milke, & ȝolkys of Eyroun y-melled to-gederys, Safroun, Salt, & hony; dry þin cofyn, & ley þin Maribonys þer-on, & caste þin comade þer-on, & serue forth.

GODE COOKERY TRANSLATION:

Mock Doucettes. Take Almond Milk, & yolks of eggs blended together, Saffron, Salt, & honey. Dry your pie shell, & lay your marrow there-on, & place your filling there-on, & serve forth.

Redaction of xxxvij. Doucettes

1/2 to 2/3 lb of pork chops
3 T milk
pinch of pepper
6 eggs
2 t honey
1 9" pie crust

Cook pork in the oven or boil it about 20 minutes. Make a pie crust, prick it, and put it in a 400 degrees degree oven for about 10 minutes. Mix remaining ingredients. Cut pork into small pieces and add to mixture. Put it in the pie crust and bake at 350 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Gentyll manly Cokere (MS Pepys 1047), (England, ca. 1500)
The original source can be found at James L. Matterer's website

Dowcetts. Take past and make lityll cofyns lesse then sawsers and set them yn the oven and hardyn hem and take mary of a nox cow and goode almoundes mylk and stere them well to gethur with sugur And powder of ginger And synamome and salt and put in the Cofyns and set them yn þe oven to bake and serue hit furth all with white colours.

"mary" = marrow