Obs. Also 5 chewette, chawette, 6 chuette, 7 chuet(t, chewit. [Derivation uncertain: it can hardly be referred to CHEW v.]
A dish made of various kinds of meat or fish, chopped fine, mixed with spices and fruits, and baked, fried or boiled. Later also chewet-pie.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 41. Chewetes on fysshe day. Chewetes on flesshe daye.
c. 1430. 15th c. Cookery Bks., 48. Chawettys. Take buttys of Vele, [etc.].
14[?]. Noble Bk. Cookry (1882), 55. To mak chewettes of beef tak beef and cutt it smalle, [etc.].
a. 1529. Skelton, Image Hypocr., II. 556. Servinge ther god, ther belly With chuettes and with gelly.
1594. Huswifes Handm. Kitchin, 39. Make two Chewets as you would make two Tarts.
1615. Markham, Eng. Housew., II. ii. (1668), 81. A chewet Pye.
1626. Bacon, Sylva (1651), 14. Chuetts, which are likewise minced meat.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. iii. Chewit, or small Pie: minced or otherwise.
