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  • Saake - sauce.
  • Saue - save; except.
  • Sauerey - savory.
  • Saunderys; Saundres; Sawnderys; Sawndres - sandalwood spice.
  • Schale; Schulle - shell.
  • Schap - shape.
  • Schoppe - chop.
  • Schouyl - shovel.
  • Schullys - shells or pieces of shells.
  • Screde - fragment; to fragment, i.e. to cut, divide, separate, make into pieces, etc.
  • Sefe - sieve.
  • Selue - self.
  • Sene; Seyn - visible, seen.
  • Serge - sift.
  • Serue - serve.
  • Seruyst(e) - servest.
  • Seth; Sethe; Seþe - seethe, boil, cook.
  • Seþin - boiled; boiling.
  • Sew(e) - sew, a Middle English word referring to a broth or liquid ranging from juice through gravy to stew.
  • Shere - cut.
  • Sith - seethe, boil, cook.
  • Skluce; Schlus - resulting mixture; end product.
  • Skore - scour.
  • Slake - lukewarm.
  • Sle(e) - slay.
  • Slepyr - slippery.
  • Smyte - chop.
  • Snyte - snipe.
  • Sode - boiled; soaked (the salt out).
  • Soperys - suppers.
  • Soppes; Soppis; Soppys - sops, pieces of bread "sopped" in roast drippings, broth, wine, & juices of any kind.
  • Sothe; Soþe; Soþin; Sothyn - boiled, cokked.
  • Soundys - sounds, the swimming bladders of codfish or plaice.
  • Span - the width of a spread hand.
  • Spyneye - thorny, spiney.
  • Spyte - spit, for roasting.
  • Stampe - grind.
  • Steke - stick.
  • Stere - stir.
  • Stokefysshe; Stokfysshe - stockfish, usually salted and dried codfish.
  • Stone wil by clowes, and by sugre - has enough cloves and sugar.
  • Stoding; Stondyng; Stondynge - standing; stiff enough to stand up in the pot or plate.
  • Stoppe - stuff; seal.
  • Straw; Strawe - strew; sprinkle; scatter.
  • Stryke - scrape.
  • Stuf - previously mentioned ingredients.
  • Stuffe of þe Porke - the pork part of the recipe.
  • Stuffur - ingredients used for stuffing.
  • Sture; Styre; Styrre - stir.
  • Sumdele; Sum-what; Sumwhat - somewhat.
  • Svette; Swette - suet.
  • Swenge - stir or beat.
  • Swete - sweet; also means suet.
  • Swynys - swine's.
  • Syth - great deal.
  • Sylt - salt.
  • Syluer - silver.
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