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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle English mawmene, from Anglo-Norman maumenee, an alteration of Arabic مأمونية (maʔmūniyya) after malmener, maumener (“to mistreat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mawmenny (uncountable)
- (historical) A dish eaten in later medieval England, made with spice and almost always with boneless meat from poultry (usually teased or mashed; most recipes name capon as an option), usually containing wine and either sugar or honey.
2000, “"Of Fish and Flesh and Tender Breede Of Win both White and Reede": Eating and Drinking in Middle English Narrative Texts”, in Patricia Shaw, Obra Reunida de Patricia Shaw, Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, page 78:[…] a remark certainly borne out by Wynnere's list, which includes: wild geese, bitterns, snipe, larks, linnets (sprinkled with sugar!), woodcock, woodpecker, teal, and titmice, the meal to be rounded off with rabbits, pasties, pies, mawmenny and custard pies!
2002, Constance B. Hieatt, “Medieval Britain”, in Melitta Weiss Adamson, editor, Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 38:What is "different" here is the absence of the more elaborate aristocratic favorites of earlier times. such as Mawmenny.
2003, Gilly Lehmann, “The Late Medieval Menu in England - A Reappraisal”, in Food and History: Revue de l'Institut Européen d'Histoire de l'Alimentation, volume 1, Brepols, →DOI, Medieval Britain:There was no fixed order for the different sweet potages, however: one finds mawmenny at least once at every course, and the other types are also placed randomly.
Middle English
Noun
mawmenny
- Alternative form of mawmene