Veal Recipes

Recipe source : England, 14th century – Forme of Cury

Ingredients
Veal, boiled until fully cooked, and then ground. (Be sure to save the broth.)
hard-boiled Eggs, diced
whole pitted prunes
dates
pine nutsZinc is a key mineral necessary to maintain male potency and pine nuts are rich in zinc. Pine nuts have been used to stimulate the libido as far back as Medieval times. Serve pine nut cookies with a dark espresso for a stimulating dessert.
currants
Whole spices and powder – salt, pepper, gingerGinger root raw, cooked or crystallized is a stimulant to the circulatory system. Perhaps a stir-fry with freshly grated ginger can stir something spicy up in the bedroom later., clove, parsley, cinnamon, etc. – be creative and use any period spice that you prefer.
sugar
salt
reserved broth
One nine-inch pie shell with pastry lid

Directions
Combine first 9 ingredients in a large bowl.
Add enough of the saved broth to thoroughly saturate the mixture and hold it together – it should be thick and slightly runny.
Place this filling in the pie shell; add lid.
Bake until the pastry is a golden brown. Serve forth!

Original Recipe in Old English
Tartletes. Take veel ysode and grinde it smale. Take harde eyren isode & yground, and do þerto with prunes hoole, dates icorue, pynes and raisouns coraunce, hoole spices & powdour, sugur & salt; and make a litell coffyn and do þis fars þerinne. Couer it & bake it & serue it forth.
- Hieatt, Constance B. and Sharon Butler. Curye on Inglish: English Culinary Manuscripts of the Fourteenth-Century (Including the Forme of Cury). New York: for The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1985.

Gode Cookery Translation
Tartlettes. Take veal boiled and grind it small. Take ground hard-boiled eggs, and do there-to with whole prunes, cored dates, pine nutsZinc is a key mineral necessary to maintain male potency and pine nuts are rich in zinc. Pine nuts have been used to stimulate the libido as far back as Medieval times. Serve pine nut cookies with a dark espresso for a stimulating dessert. and currants, whole spices & powder, sugar & salt: and make a little pie shell and do this filling there-in. Cover it & bake it & serve it forth.