Obs. Also comad, commade, ? comand. (Meaning uncertain.)
c. 1430. Cookery Bks., 48. Take Gyngere, canelle, & melle wyl þi commade þer-with. Ibid., 56. Dry þin cofyn, & caste þin comade þer-on. Ibid. Þan take hardid cofyns, & pore þin comad þer-on.
14[?]. Noble Bk. Cookry (Napier, 1882), 26. And when the pot boilithe put the comand to the brothe.
