1st Course
Boars' head enarmed [larded]
Bruet of Almayne to pottage
[coneys or kids cut into small pieces and parboiled in broth, then reboiled with almond milk, galingale, ginger and rice-flour and coloured red with alkanet] Teals baked and woodcocks
Pheasants and curlews
Partridge, coneys and mallard
[a pottage of ground almonds and white wine or broth, thickened with rice-flour and ground chicken flesh, seasoned with sugar, salt and saffron] Cawdel ferry [wine sweetened with sugar or honey, thickened with fine white flour and heated with saffron and egg yolks, with ginger and sugar sprinkled on the top] with Flampoyntes of cream and Tarts [open tarts with a creamy filling including ground pork flesh and cheese and sometimes ground figs and spices, with small points of pastry stuck into them]
Plovers, laverocks [larks] and chicken forced [stuffed] Mawmenny [a pottage of shredded chicken or pheasant flesh, sweetened wine, fried pine nuts and dates, and spices, coloured red with sanders - a type of sandalwood - or yellow with saffron]
A subtlety would have followed each course.
A fish day menu for a great medieval feast runs:
Vyaund Ryal
Sew Lumbarde [broth]
Salt fish and Salt Lampreys
Pike, Bream and Roast Salmon
Crustarde Lumbarde
A subtlety
Porpoise with Furmenty
Geleye
Bream, salmon, conger eel, gurnard and plaice Lamprey pie
Creme of Almaundys
Pears in syrup
Tench, trout, fried flanders, perch
Roast lampreys and roast eels
Sturgeon and boiled crab
Graspeys [Royal fish like sturgeon or whale]
A subtlety in the shape of a crowned eagle.
2nd Course
3rd Course
1st Course
[sweetened wine, spiced and thickened with rice-flour, coloured red with mulberries or sanders]
[an egg custard tart with dried fruits]
2nd Course
[a dish of boiled, hulled wheat resembling a modern wheat porridge with ground almonds and pieces of porpoise]
[a fish jelly]
Leche frys [tarts of cheese, butter and egg yolk]
A subtlety in the shape of a crowned panther
3rd Course
[thickened confection of almond milk and sugar curdled with vinegar]