Flaumpens (recipe)

Period Recipe

From the Forme of Cury.

FLAUMPENS. XX.IX. IIII.

Take fat Pork ysode. pyke it clene. grynde it smale. grynde Chese & do þerto. wiþ sugur and gode powdours. make a coffyn of an ynche depe. and do þis fars þerin. make a thynne foile of gode past & kerue out þeroff smale poyntes. frye hem in fars. & bake it up &c.

Notes

• Flaumpeyns. Flaumpens, Contents. V. No. 113.
• Points, seems the same as Prews, No. 176.
• in fars, f. in the fars; and yet the Fars is disposed of before; ergo quære.

Modern Recipe

Ingredients

• 750 g Pork, chopped small (not ground)
• 3 Egg Yolks, had boiled
• 2 tsp Galingal ground
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese

• one 8 inch x 2 inch deep dish pie crust with lid

Method

1. Fry pork and add spices and crushed eggs yolks
2. Blind bake the bottom of the pie crust at 220 C for 15 minutes
3. Put pork into crust and put grated cheese on top. Add lid and bake at 190 C for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

YiS
Gwynfor Lwyd

Notes

The historical version of this recipe was taken from the Project Gutenberg e-text of the Forme of Cury.