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== Period Recipe ==
From the [[Forme of Cury]].
:'''''GELE'' OF FYSSH. C. I.'''

:Take Tenches, ''pykes'', eelys, turbut and ''plays'', kerue hem to pecys. scalde hem & waische hem clene. drye hem with a cloth do hem in a panne do �erto half vyneger & half wyne & see� it wel. & take the Fysshe and pike it clene, cole the broth thurgh a cloth into a erthen panne. do �erto powdour of pep and safroun ynowh. lat it see� and skym it wel whan it is ysode ''dof'' grees clene, cowche fisshes on chargeours & cole the sewe thorow a cloth onoward & serue it forth.

=== Notes ===
* Gele. Jelly. ''Gelee'', Contents here and in the next Recipe. ''Gely'', Ms. Ed. No. 55, which presents us with much the same prescription.
* ''pykes''. It is commonly thought this fish was not extant in England till the reign of H. VIII.; but see No. 107. 109. 114. So Lucys, or Tenchis, Ms. Ed. II 1. 3. Pygus or Tenchis, II. 2. Pikys, 33 Chaucer, v. Luce; and Lel. Coll. IV. p. 226. VI. p. 1. 5. ''Luce salt''. Ibid. p. 6. Mr. Topham's Ms. written about 1230, mentions ''Lupos aquaticos five Luceas'' amongst the fish which the fishmonger was to have in his shop. They were the arms of the Lucy family so early as Edw. I. See also Pennant's Zool. III. p. 280, 410.
* ''Plays''. Plaise, the fish.
* ''Dof'', i. e. do of.

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== Modern Recipe ==
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== Notes ==
The historical version of this recipe was taken from the [[Project Gutenberg]] e-text of the [[Forme of Cury]]. 

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