A Tart of Green Pease
To make a tart of green pease.

Take halfe a peck of greene Pease, sheale them and seeth them, and cast them into a cullender, and let the water go from them then put them into the Tart whole, & season them with Pepper, saffron and salte, and a dishe of sweet butter, close and bake him almost one houre, then drawe him, and put to him a little vergice, and shake them and sit them in the Oven againe, and so serve it.

Source: Lancelot Casteau, Ouverture du Cuisine, 1604.


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