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  • Caboges - cabbages.
  • Cacche - catch, as to stick to the bottom of the pan.
  • Calues; Caluys; Calvis - calves; calves
  • Canel; Canell; Canelle - cinnamon.
  • Caste - add.
  • Caudel; Cawdelle - caudle.
  • Ceson - season.
  • Chaffre; Chaffer - chauffer, a vat or pot for French-frying.
  • Charde quynce - quince "meat."
  • Chare - flesh; meat (of fruits, nuts, etc.). From French chair.
  • Chargeaunt - thick.
  • Chargere; Chargeour - charger; large dish.
  • Chaudon; Chawdewyn; Chawd-wyne - chawdron, derived from the same word as "chowder": chaudière, a kettle, pot, caldron; it refers to dishes composed of or built around the viscera of fowl or animals.
  • Chek - chicken.
  • Chepis - sheep's.
  • Chewette - chewet, a kind of pie, originally made with chopped meat or fish.
  • Chyrioun; Chryis; Chyryoun - cherries.
  • Cipris - Cypris; sugar of Cypris.
  • Clarefied - clarified.
  • Clen; Clene - clean; also means very or quite.
  • Cleue - cleave, adhere.
  • Cleuyng - sticking, cleaving.
  • Cloue - clove.
  • Clouen - cloven.
  • Clouys; Clowes; Clowys - cloves.
  • Clowtys - clotted.
  • Codlynd; Codlyng - hake (fish).
  • Coffyn; Cofyn; Cofyne; Cofynne - bottom crust of a pie or tart; pasty mould.
  • Coleys - French coulis, a strained soup.
  • Colous; Colys - coals.
  • Comade; Commade - mixture.
  • Comfyte - preserved in sugar.
  • Commelyche - comely, seemly.
  • Composte - compote.
  • Comyn - cumin seed.
  • Congere - congeree, a conger eel.
  • Connynges; Conygys - conings, coneys (rabbits).
  • Cora(u)nce; Corauns - currants.
  • Corys - cores.
  • Costardys - costards, an English variety of apple.
  • Costmary - an herb; alecost is another name for it.
  • Couche; Cowche - lay.
  • Courance - currants.
  • Creme - a syrupy confection.
  • Crodde; Crudde - (verb) curdle; (noun) curd.
  • Croddis; Croddys - curds.
  • Cromes; Crome; Cromys - crumbs.
  • Cromyd - crumbled.
  • Cruddis; Cruddys - curds.
  • Crustade - pie.
  • Culpe - cut in thick slices.
  • Curnylles - kernels; nutmeats.
  • Custard - crustade.
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