Obs. Cookery. [Etymol. uncertain.] An ancient mode of cooking capons: cf. CONSY (which seems however to have been a different dish).
c. 1430. Cookery Bks., 18. Capoun in Consewe, Take a Capoun … sethe hym in Water … quarter hym … strawe þar-uppe-on Sugre, & send it yn with almaundys.
