Le Menagier de Paris c.1393
Beverages for the Sick - Bouillon
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BOUILLON. To make four sixths of bouillon, you need half a brown loaf of bread costing one denier, yeast bread, raised three days: item, bran, a good quarter of a bushel, and put five sixths of water in a pan, and when it boils, put the bran in the water and boil until it all reduces by a fifth or more; then take it off the fire and let it cool until it is just warm, then strain through a sieve or cloth, then soak the leavened bread in water and put it in a cask, and leave it for two or three days to work; put in the cellar and leave to clarify, and then drink. Item, if you want to make it better, you should add a pint of honey, well boiled and well skimmed. |
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Notes:
The loaf of brown bread costing one dernier would have weighed about eighteen ounces.
A bushel = 64 tower pounds = 48lb = 21.81kg (this seems a bit excessive but I don't know what sort of volume 22kg of bran would be)
1 Pint = 568ml approx
The loaf of brown bread costing one dernier would have weighed about eighteen ounces.
A bushel = 64 tower pounds = 48lb = 21.81kg (this seems a bit excessive but I don't know what sort of volume 22kg of bran would be)
1 Pint = 568ml approx