Alternative spellings

Alternate spellings of ingredients and recipes

The following is a list of spellings of selected common words found in our manuscript recipe book collection. The list is case insensitive and contains both singular and plural forms. This list is not comprehensive and is meant to assist searching our manuscript recipe book collection, which is transcribed semi-diplomatically and not modernized.

This resource was created by Caitlin Walsh (University College London) as part of her placement at Early Modern Recipes Online Collection (EMROC).

Almond

Allmond
Almun
Almon
Almond

Apple

Appels
Apples
Apple
Aple
Aple

Apricot

Aprecock
Aprecocks
Apricocks
Apricockes
Apricok
Apricoks
Appricoks
Appricoke
Aprycockes

Artichoke

o Artychoaks
o Hartichokes
o Hartichocks
o Hartichockes
o Hartichoak

Cinnamon

o Sinemon
o Sinamon
o Sinomond

Egg

o Egge
o Eggs
o Egs

Honey

o Honey
o Huney
o Honnye
o Honye
o Hony
o Honny

Lemon

o Lemonds
o Leomonde
o Lemon
o Lemons
o Lemmon
o Lemmons
o Lemmond

Medicine

o Medycine
o Medysin
o Medisin
o Medicins
o Medicine
o Medicyne
o Medsin
o Medesin

Mushroom

o Mushrums
o Mushrooms

Orange

o Orange
o Orang
o Orranges
o Orring
o Oring
o Oraing
o Orainges
o Oraingee

Parsley

o Persly
o Parsley
o Parsly
o Percely

Pie

o Pie
o Pye
o Pyes
o Piye

Plum

o Plumb
o Plumes
o Plumbes

Quince

o Quynces
o Quinses
o Quince
o Quinces

Remedy

o Remedies
o Remedi
o Remedy
o Remedie

Sugar

o Sugar

o Suger

o Sugre

o Shugar

Syrup

o Syrups

o Syrope

o Syroop

o Sirope

o Syrip

o Sirup

o Sirrup

o Siruop

o Siroupe

o Syrupp

o Syrrupe

o Syrrupp

o Syrupps

o Syrruppe

o Surrup

o Surrupe

Walnut

o Wallnut
o Wall nuts
o Walnutts