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
- Artychoaks
- Hartichokes
- Hartichocks
- Hartichockes
- Hartichoak
Cinnamon
- Sinemon
- Sinamon
- Sinomond
Egg
- Egge
- Eggs
- Egs
Honey
- Honey
- Huney
- Honnye
- Honye
- Hony
- Honny
Lemon
- Lemonds
- Leomonde
- Lemon
- Lemons
- Lemmon
- Lemmons
- Lemmond
Medicine
- Medycine
- Medysin
- Medisin
- Medicins
- Medicine
- Medicyne
- Medsin
- Medesin
Mushroom
- Mushrums
- Mushrooms
Orange
- Orange
- Orang
- Orranges
- Orring
- Oring
- Oraing
- Orainges
- Oraingee
Parsley
- Persly
- Parsley
- Parsly
- Percely
Pie
- Pie
- Pye
- Pyes
- Piye
Plum
- Plumb
- Plumes
- Plumbes
Quince
- Quynces
- Quinses
- Quince
- Quinces
Remedy
- Remedies
- Remedi
- Remedy
- 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