suffyse

Updated: May 6, 2025

This was prior to 1519, the date of Colet's decease. There were of course periods of scarcity and high prices then as now. "Befe and motton is so dere, that a peny worth of meet wyll scant suffyse a boy at a meale." The term "cook's-shop" occurs in the Orders and Ordinances devised by the Steward, Dean, and Burgesses of Westminster in 1585, for the better municipal government of that borough.

William Carew Hazlitt - Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine