Andrew Boorde

"Those your wyne after thys sorte, it must be fyne, fayre & clere to the eye, it muste be fragraunte and redolent hauynge a good odour and flauour in the nose, it muste spryncle in the cup whan it is drawne or put out of the pot in to the cup, it must be colde & pleasaunt in the mouth, and it must be stronge and subtyll of substaunce. And than moderatly dronken it doth acuate and doth quycken a mans wyttes, it doth cōfort the hert, it doth scowre ye lyuer, specyally if it be whyte wine it doth reioyce al the powers of man, and dothe nuryshe them, it dothe ingendre good bloude, it doth comforte and doth nurysshe the brayne and all the body, and it resolueth fleume, it ingendreth heate, and it is good agaynst heuynes and pencyfulnes, it is full of agylyte, wherfore it is medsonable, specyally whyte wyne, for it doth mundyfye and clense woūdes & sores."

"Beefe is good meate for & Englyssh man so be it the beest be yonge, & that it be nat cowe flesshe. For olde befe & cowe flesshe dothe ingēdre melancoly and leprouse bumours: yf it be moderatly poudered that the groose bloude by salte may be exaustyd, it doth make an Englysshe man strōge."

"Fysshe may be sode, rosted, bruled & baken euery one after theyr kynde, & vse a fasshyon of the countre, as the coke and the phisicion wyll agre & deuyse. For a good coke is halfe a phisicion. For the chefe phisicke (the councell of a phisecion except) dothe come from the kytchyn, wherfore the phisicion and the coke for sicke men must consult togyther for the preparacion of meate for sicke men."