manchets

The noontide breakfast provided for the Percy establishment was of a very modest character: my lord and my lady had, for example, a loaf of bread, two manchets (loaves of finer bread), a quart of beer and one of wine, two pieces of salt fish, and six baked herrings or a dish of sprats.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

But, alas! those delicate cakes which had been baked in silver ovens for his royal mouth, those rich manchets, amber comfits, flagons of Schiraz wine, porcelain vases of snow, and grapes from the banks of the Tigris, were all irremediably lost!

The History of the Caliph Vathek 2004

Take twenty eggs, beat them in a dish with some salt and put butter to them; then have two large rouls or fine manchets, cut them into toasts, & toast them against the fire with a pound of fine sweet butter; being finely buttered, lay the toasts in a fair clean scowred dish, put the eggs on the toasts, and garnish the dish with pepper and salt.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

And, after, with the selfe same wine are little manchets made,

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

So she nursed the project in her own heart, and when the three had taken seizin of the northern hill, eaten their manchets of saffron cake, and shared their canful of milk, she took up a post from which, while the others scanned the offing for Spaniards, she could watch and time the ebb of the tide on the flats.

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

And after with the selfsame wine are little manchets [F] made,

In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World Various 1902

At the end of the year, I heard the door opened and men came in with manchets and flour and sugar.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II Anonymous 1879

Here, placing a lamp upon the table, and pointing to two manchets of bread and a vessel of water, which stood on the table; and to two truckle beds, in the corner of the room, he left them without a word.

Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main Gordon Browne 1867

In a few minutes a cold capon, several manchets of bread, and a stoop of wine were placed before Walter, while Ralph's wants were attended to below.

St. George for England 1867

Then she took the Maid by the shoulders and turned her about as in sport, and said: "Go thou now, and bring hither the good grey ones; for needs must we bring home some venison to-day, whereas this stout warrior may not feed on nought save manchets and honey."

Wood Beyond the World William Morris 1865