mader

Ingredients

mader, egremonie, warmode, southernewode, auance, hayryfe, ʒarewe

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The recipe requires a massive quantity of ingredients, including 'mader as moch wight as of all the other herbis before hayryfe ʒarewe' (p. 148). It specifies the inclusion of 125 different substances, where madder is used by weight to match the sum of a specific list of prior ingredients (p. 148).

Evidence

"mader as moch wight as of all the other herbis before hayryfe ʒarewe"

Remarks

Madder (mader) is cited as a significant substance within a lengthy 125-ingredient recipe in MS HM 58. While the recipe is medical, madder (Rubia tinctorum) is a primary organic colorant for textiles and pigment preparation (p. 148). The author notes that such elaborate recipes, requiring vast numbers of ingredients like madder, might have been included in manuscripts specifically because they 'suggested wealth' and indicated that the owner 'could purchase all of these ingredients' (p. 148).