Many of these dishes, such as
Hochepot Soup, Rabbit and Wallfish Pie and desserts like Savoy Cake with Oranges are forgotten on modern menus.
Here are the English and French passages detailing Melibee's judgment of his counsellors; the speaker in both passages is Prudence: "ye han maked no division bitwixe youre conseillours--this is to seyn, bitwixen youre trewe freendes and youre feyned conseillours--ne ye han nat knowe the wil of youre trewe freendes olde and wise, but ye han cast alle hire wordes in an
hochepot, and enclyned youre herte to the moore part and to the gretter nombre, and there been ye condescended" (VII.