† malmeny Obs.
Forms: 4 mawmenny, -menee, 5 momene, maumen(y)e, mawmene, -many, -meny, malmany(e, menye, malmens, mammenye, -ony, mameny, 5–6 mamony.
[Of obscure origin. Connexion with F. malmener ‘to maltreat’ seems unlikely. The receipt might suggest derivation from malmsey or its source.]
A dish in old cookery.
| ? c 1390 Forme of Cury xx. (1780) 19 Mawmenee. Take a pottel of wyne greke and ii pounde of sugar [etc.]. Ibid. cxciv. 88 For to make Mawmenny. c 1420 Liber Cocorum (1862) 26 For to make momene. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 22 Maumenye ryalle... Mammenye bastarde. Ibid. 48 Malmenye Furnez...with the wete dyssche ley þe malmenye & þe cofyns. a 1450 Tourn. Tottenham, Feest v. in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 94 Ther was gryndulstones in gravy And mylstones in mawmany. 1513 Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 275 And the seconde course, Iussell with mamony. |