† ˈcharlet Obs.
Also 7 charlett.
[cf. OF. charlet ‘sorte de vase’; also charlotte.]
A kind of custard containing milk, eggs, brayed pork, and seasoning, boiled to a curd.
| ? c 1390 Form of Cury 27 Charlet and charlet yforced. c 1425 Cookery Bk. (Harl. MS. 279) (1888) 17 Charlette (recipe)..Charlet a-forcyd ryally (recipe). c 1440 Promp. Parv. 70 Charlet, dyschemete, pepo. 1513 Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 273 Gelly, mortrus, creme almondes, blaunche manger, iussel, and charlet, cabage, and nombles of a dere, ben good; & all other potage beware of. c 1631 Turnam. Totenham 277 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 95 Chese crustis in charlett As red as any scarlette. |