Funges

PERIOD: England, 14th century | SOURCE: Forme of Cury | CLASS: Authentic

DESCRIPTION: Mushrooms in broth and spices.

ORIGINAL RECEIPT:

12. Funges. Take funges and pare hem clene, and dyce hem; take leke and shrede hym small, and do hym to seeþ in gode broth. Colour it with safroun, and do þerinne powdour fort.

- 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:

Mushrooms. Take mushrooms and pare them clean, and dice them; take leeks and shred him small, and do him to seethe in good broth. Color it with saffron, and do therein powder fort.

powder fort - defined by Curye on Inglish as being a "strong mixture of ground spices, generally including pepper and/or cloves."

MODERN RECIPE:

• 4 cups Gode Broth (made without bread crumbs)
• 8 oz. (2 ½ cups) sliced mushrooms
• 1 large onion or 1-2 cups leeks, sliced
• ¼ tsp. each ground cloves and pepper
• pinch saffron