Cookery. Obs. [Etymology unknown; OF. had ‘pain feré,’ explained by Godef. as ‘bread for a festival.’] More fully, Caudle ferry: A kind of spiced drink made with wine and eggs. Also app. some kind of sauce.
c. 1390[?]. Form Cury, xli. 27. Cawdel ferry. Take floer of Payndemayn and gode wyne, etc.
c. 1475. Noble Bk. Cookry (Napier, 1882), 32. To mak cawdelle ferry, tak clene yolks of egge welle betene [etc.].
1504. in Leland, Collect., VI. 21. Carpe in ferry.
